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COLONEL DANIEL CHAPLIN. 



THE 

First Maine Heavy Artillurv 

1862 — 1S65 



A HISTORY OF ITS PART AND I'I,A('K I\ llll' W A k 

FOR THE UNION, WITH AN Ol'I'LlM' oF 

OAl'SES OF WAR AND Fl'S RFSFFI'S 

TO OL'R COLNTRN 

P,V HORACE H. SHAW 

WITH ()R(;ANIZATI0N, company, and INI)I\ IDC \I. 

RECORDS 

BY CHARLES I. HOCSF 



PORTLAND, MAINE 

1903 





MAJOR c llARi.KS J. HOUSE, 

ClIMkMAN OF COMMIITKE ON HiSTORY, 



FORTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY, 

x^UGUST 21, 1903. 

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON HISTORY. 



A PRINTED HISTORY of the FIRST MAIXK HEAVY 
ARTILLERY is what all the surviving members of that 
organization have long hoped for, often hoping against hope. 
More than thirty years ago the matter was agitated and discussed 
at our reunion at Fort Point on the Penobscot, One of our officers 
then agreed to write the history and a board of canvassers for the 
sale of the book was appointed, but nothing ever came of it. 

Several years later, at our reunion at Ellsworth, a second com- 
mittee was appointed, who at once sent out printed circulars to all 
the members asking for written contributions for the work. At our 
next reunion the secretary of the committee reported that he had 
received a compilation of the record of the members of Company E, 
only this and nothing more. At our reunion in Orono, some years 
later, a third committee was appointed, which is still in existence, 
with Charles J. House, chairman; Andrew C. Sawyer, treasurer, 
and Fred C. Low, secretary, although several names have since 
been added. 

The chairman of your committee has continued the work which 
was begun at once after the appointment of the second committee, 
that of gathering the facts and arranging the records of the men 
and verifying the list of casualties which are published in this 
volume. Efforts were made to induce some one to undertake the 
writing of the history of the Regiment and several did agree to 
undertake the work, but each in turn failed to accomplish it. 

Two years ago, Capt. Horace H. Shaw was prevailed upon to 
agree to write the history. From the fact that h-e had secured the 
funds for and had placed in position the Monument which marks 




ANDRKAV C. SAWYER, 
Skrcieant Major, 

I'kEASURKR UF CoMMIl IKK ON HiSTORY. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE. VII 

the spot of the greatest sacrifice of the war, it was felt that the work 
had now been taken up by hands that would complete it. The 
comrades felt that if he did not write this History it never would 
be written. He has undertiken the work as our historian and the 
history is in print ready for distribution. The author makes no 
claims for perfection. The chairman of your committee has care- 
fully read, examined and approved the work. Written fortv years 
after our enlistment, it is widely different from any regimental his- 
tory that has yet been published. In the judgment of your committee 
it is vastly superior to any work of this kind. It sets our Regiment 
in its proper place in the history of our army and our country. 

The statistical work by the chairman of your committee is, we 
believe, a more complete record of every individual, officer and man, 
than can be found in any other regimental history. It will be read 
mostly by people who have been born since the close of our struggle. 
A perusal of this book will give to the reader a clear view of the 
growth of our controversy, a knowledge of the pro-slavery and anti- 
slavery agitations and a condensed recital of the events of the Civil 
War, particularly of those stirring campaigns of the organization in 
which the Regiment bore its full part and made a greater sacrifice 
than any other regiment. 

The statistical tables reveal the awful tale of sacrifice and 
suffering and will tell to the future historian, in facts more pathetic 
than poetry, what a price we who survive, and our comrades who 
have passed over, paid for the priceless boon of liberty which we 
are enjoying and, as we depart, are handing down to bless the gen- 
erations yet unborn. 

CHARLES J. HOUSE, 

Chairman Committee on History. 




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^■^^'^'' H. SHAW. 



INTRODUCTION. 



SEVERAL previous endeavors have been made, by committees 
composed of the most conspicuous officers of the First Maine 
Heavy Artillery, to produce a history which would set tlie 
Regiment and its members in their proper place in the history of 
our country. 

The First Maine Heavy Artillery, formerly the i8th Maine 
Infantry, made for itself a record it did not seek. It stands recorded 
as the Regiment that lost more men, killed and wounded in battle, 
and the largest percentage of losses in battle, and it also lost a 
larger number of men in a single battle than any regiment in the 
United States service in any war. 

The object of this work is to record for the survivors and their 
friends a brief view of the growth of our conflict, the enormous pro- 
portions of the struggle in which we were engaged, the great army 
organization of which we formed a part, the battles and marches in 
which we participated, and the results •achieved. 

The author has endeavored to outline briefly tlie glorious results 
to our country and its people of the unity, freedom and power we 
now enjoy. Very many of the comrades have contributed to the 
work. While all their valuable letters and papers could not be put 
in print by themselves, the author has endeavored to condense and 
put into the subject matter of which he has written all the important 
facts in their narrations. 

The work of preserving to posterity so many pictures of the 
dead and living officers and men of the Regiment, and collecting 
and contributmg the valuable papers by Maj. Fred C. Shaw, and 
letters, with clippings from papers of war days, together with other 
valuable help, has been the work of Maj. F. C. Low. Capts. B. F. 
Oakes and G. R. Fernald and Lieuts. J. A. Dole, F. O. Talbot, and 
A. P. Eastman have contributed much to the work by giving facts 
not otherwise obtainable at this late dav. 



^ INTRODUCTION. 

'I'he authorities consulted and quoted have been many, includ- 
ing Fiske, Lossing, Abbott, Blaine, Benton, Congressional Record 
and periodicals of the time. Memoirs of (irant. Life of General Lee, 
Histories by Generals Humphreys, Walker, and De Trobriand, 
Confederate General Longstreet, and others. Also several regi- 
mental histories, and quite largely Records Union and Confederate 
Armies, War of the Rebellion. 

Comrades and critics will please bear in mind the following 
facts: The author makes no pretensions at being a historian. His 
service was such that his memory recalls the general movements of 
Brigade, Division and Corps; also the events elsewhere of which 
wc were hearing at the time. By far the most valuable and impor- 
tant part of this book is the work of Maj. C. J. House, who for a 
period of ten years has given most of his spare time to the compila- 
tion of a true and exact record of every officer and soldier in this 
Regiment. This record tells a pathetic tale of sacrifice, suffering 
and death. 

Should the comrades feel that the work is not all they could 
wish, the author must crave their indulgence and ask them to com- 
pare it, not with the works of great historians, but with the results 
of all who have attempted this work before him. If it shall serve 
in the time to come to give his comrades the renown they so justly 
deserve, the work will have accomplished all the author and the 
committee on history dared to hope. 

.Such as it is. this work is affectionately dedicated to the memory 
of his comrades, living and dead. 

HORACE H. SHAW. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART ONE. 

CHAPTER I. 

Beginning of our Contest — Colony at Jamestown — Settlement of New- 
England — Slavery in History 3 

CHAPTER II. 

Early Contests over Slavery — Acquisition of Territory — The Race for 
Power Adds to our Country's Greatness — Results of Mexican War j i 

CHAPTER III. 

Discussions and Compromises of 1850 — Fugitive Slave Law — " Uncle 
Tom's Cabin" — Names of Men we knew in War Times — Repeal 
of Missouri Compromise — Threatened Disunion — Douglas and 
Lincoln — John Brown 23 

CHAPTER IV. 
Political Revolution of 1S60 — Formation of New Political Alliances . 36 

CHAPTER V. 

From Election to Inaugural of President Lincoln — Secession Rampant 
— Thirty-sixth Congress — Withdrawal of Southern Congressmen — 
Secession of States — W^ar Begins 43 

PART TWO. 
The Abitrament of Arms. 

CHAPTER VI. 

Uprising of the Loyal North — Wild Confidence in the South — Progress 
of Events during First Year of War— Military Organization — The 
• Navy and its Condition 59 

CHAPTER VII. 

Revolution in Naval Warfare — The Monitor and Merrimac — Events 

up to Time of our Call 75 



X,j TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER VIII. 
From KnlistmeiU to Washington -The Event, the Men, the Result . 82 
/;)' Colo)icl Zcniro A. S))iith. 

CHAPTER IX. 

How Washington .Struck us — EorestFelHng and P^ort Building — Lis- 
tening to Sounds of Battle— Learning the Art of War ... 95 

CHAPTER X. 
Daughter of the Regiment — A Fair Rebel — Attitude of Southern 
Society to \ankees io3 

CHAPTER XI. 

From Washington to Petersburg — Battle of Spottsylvania — Milford 
Station— North Anna— Totopotomoy— Cold Harbor — Crossing the 
James — Three Days' Battle — The Bloodiest Battle in History — 
(ieneral Walker's Account of the Tragedy 108 

CHAPTER XII. 

Aftt-r the I )isaster — Noble Heroism of the Men — Morale of Regiment 

— Battle of Weldon Road, June 22d — Deep Bottom — Mine Explo- 
sion — Second Deep Bottom — Death of Colonel Chaplin — De 
Trobriand Account of it 130 

CHAPTER XIII. 

Return from Deep Bottom — Battle at Reams Station — Fort Hell, Life 
Underground — Squirrel Level — Battle of Boydton Road — New 
Corps Commander— Weldon Raid — Hatcher's Run — Life in Win- 
ter Ouarters 144 

CHAPTER XIV. 

lieginning of the ICnd — Ceneral Lee's Attempt to Cut Out— Capture 
and Recapture of Fort Steadman — Terrible Slaughter of Confed- 
erates where our Monument Stands — The Blow we Struck Back — 
Our Lines Advanced — Getting Ready to Finish the Confederacy 

— Eventful Days— Richmond and Petersburg Taken — Flight of 
Presi<lent Davis — Wild Rejoicing in the North . . . .160 

(llAPri'R XV. 
•1 '•; l'eter^l)urg and Richmond — Seven Days' Race — Dea- 
lle and Sailers' Creek- High Bridge — Farmville -Foraging 
-^Idlers' Day at Appomattox -Surrender of Lee . . .174 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. XIII 

CHAPTER XVI. 

Marching Homeward, Celebration in Camp — Sherman and Johnston — 
The Nation's Awful Calamity : Assassination of President Lincoln 
— Flight of Jeff Davis — The March through Richmond to Washing- 
ton—Camping at Bailey's Crossroads — Grand Review — Return 
Home of Original Regiment — Work about Washington — Going 
Home 191 

CHAPTER XVII. 

Results of the War — Growth of the Nation — What the Survivors have 

lived to see 202 



PART THREE. 

CHAPTER XVIII. 

Official and Individual History of the Regiment — The Organization . 209 

By Major C/iar/es J. House. 

PART FOUR. 

CHAPTER XIX. 

A Regiment of Green Recruits — Life in Camp — Campaigning — Sketch 

from the Ranks — Drawing Rations — Drawing Clothing . . . 497 

CHAPTER XX. 
A Regiment with Green Officers 507 

CHAPTER XXI. 
Since Appomattox— Spanish War — Conclusion 515 




MAJOR FRKDKRICK C. LOW, 

SiaRETARV OF CoMMiriEE, 

Who has gathered during many years much of the data 
and most of the pictures in this work. 




The kind of homes we left down South. See how the 
Johnnies knocked the chimney tops off. 



PART I. 



CHAPTER I. 

BEGINNING OP^ OUR CONTEST COLONY AT JAMESTOWN SETTLE- 
MENT OF NEW ENGLAND SLAVERY IN PAST HIS'l'ORY. 

Self-interest is an element found everywhere in human nature. 
In the noblest heights to which humanity has ascended, in whatever 
depths of degradation man has been found, this item had always to 
be dealt with. It has always been a prime factor, inspiring the 
movements of man. 

The first permanent settlers upon our soil were inspired by 
greed for gold. They were more intent upon finding gold than upon 
making new homes in the wilderness ; but for the energy and diplo- 
macy of one man, the historic John Smith, they must have starved 
before punishment for their folly revealed their virtues. "The 
company was reported as one hundred and five persons, besides the 
thirty-nine sailors, of whom fifty-two were classed as gentlemen, 
the rest as traders and mechanics. We do not hear of farmers in 
this first attempt at colonization. The first addition of population, 
consisting of five hundred colonists, were a wretched set, for the 
most part the scum from English jails or rufiians picked up about 
the streets." 

Communism was the first system of government in America. 
By this colony land was owned in common, and whatever food any- 
body raised or whatever property was got by trading with the red 
men was put into a common pool to be divided evenly among the 
settlers. The result was that the lazy ones would not work because 
they preferred to throw their labor upon the others. The willing 
ones were not willing to work because they could not reap the 
results of their labor. Thus the support of the colony had fallen 
upon a few persons of energy. 

Change of rulers is sometimes good for a people The sickness 
of their former governor. Lord Delaware, which compelled him to 
return to England, left the government in the hands of a most ener- 
getic man, Sir Thomas Bale, who proceeded at once to put an end to 
this state of things. Henceforth every man was to till his own 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

tract of land and contribute two and one-half barrels of corn to the 
public granary as a tax for the support of the government; what- 
ever he^hould raise beyond this was to be his own private property. 
The lazy had land under the same requirements, but must shift for 
themselves. The diligent could see reward for their work, while 
the lazy could see starvation if they did not work. Self-interest 
moved both and the colony began to prosper. 

So early as this, America had taught the rest of the civilized 
world to smoke and chew tobacco, and with a good crop of this 
fragrant weed they could buy whatever else they wanted. Now 
respectable farmers were coming to Virginia by hundreds to make 
their fortunes. 

THE HEC.INNING OF SLAVERY SLAVERY IN HISTORY. 

In order to cultivate great plantations of tobacco many laborers 
were needed, and cheap labor would do because the work did not 
require much intelligence. So the settlers, instead of working with 
their own hands, began to buy slaves. Rolfe says that in 1619 
"there came in a Dutch Mannie of Warre that sold us twenty 
neegars." At first, however, there were more white than black 
slaves. "The crowded prisons of England were relieved by sending 
shiploads of these wretches to Virginia," to be sold into slavery foi 
;\ term of years. 

Kidnappers in English seaports did a profitable business seiz- 
ing gypsies, vagabonds, and orphan children and packing them off to 
Virginia. These became what were known as indentured servants 
who were afterwards set free. Now and then some of the most 
capable and industrious of these would acquire small plantations 
for themselves. Some of them would lead idle, shiftless lives. 
Some would go to the frontier and hunt and fish like the Indians 
and sometimes with them. The descendants of some of these 
moved westward with the frontier and became scattered far and 
wide. Few of them came to this country later than 1700, by which 
time negroes brought from Africa were in sufficient numbers to do all 
the work upon the plantations. 

I'l'KITANS AND 1'IL(;RIMS IN NEW ENGLAND. 

The I'rotestant Reformation, set on foot in England in the reign 
of Henry \III., was secured in 1588 by the defeat of the Spanish 



SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND. 5 

Armada. It was an incomplete reform. It did not even attempt to 
secure freedom of thought or freedom of worship. At the present 
day in most civilized countries, and particularly in the United States, 
a man may hold any opinions that may seem right to him with 
regard to matters of religion. He may go to any church he likes 
or to no church at all. He may or may not pay something towards 
the support of a church, just as he pleases. He may proclaim his 
opinions by voice or in print so long as he does not interfere with 
or hinder the rights and privileges of any other person. In the time 
of Queen Elizabeth there was no country in the world where such 
liberties were allowed. No such thing had ever been heard of. 

By the reform in England, the sovereign was made the head of 
the church in that country instead of the Pope, and there were some 
changes made in doctrines and ceremonials ; but everybody was 
required to conform to the church as thus modified and everybody 
was taxed to support it. Those who refused were persecuted both 
by the Romish and the Reformed Church. There were many who 
wanted to reform and purify the church. These were called the 
Puritans. Most of them had no idea of leaving the Established 
Church; but, having no success within, under the leadership of a 
man named Brown many of them accepted the policy of separation 
and began holding services in houses, barns and groves. These 
were called Separatists. 

They were accused of sedition. Many were cast into jail, 
some were hanged, and others fled from the country. At Scrooby, 
a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, England, a congregation of Separa- 
tists listened to the eloquent preaching of John Robinson. In 
1608, to escape persecution, they fled in a body to Holland, where 
there was more religious liberty than in England or any other coun- 
try in the world. They settled in Holland at Leyden where they 
were joined by others from England until there were more than a 
thousand of them. They were well treated in Holland, but they 
knew if they stayed in that country their children and grandchildren 
would soon lose their English speech and would become Dutch. 
They decided to go like pilgrims to America. They got permission 
from the London company to settle on the coast of New Jersey. 
Some English merchants furnished them with money on hard terms. 
King James refused them a charter but made no objections to their 
going. 



6 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

In luly, 1620, a small band of Pilgrims sailed from Delfts 
Haven in the ship Speedwell for Southampton, England, where the 
Mayriower was awaiting them with friends. They encountered bad 
weather and did not come to anchor on the American coast until 
the 21st of November. Thqy had gone so far out of their way that 
instead of New Jersey it was the northern shore of Cape Cod where 
they found themselves. They concluded to stay there and easily 
obtained permission from the Plymouth Company which had 
preceded them and were anxious to have settlers. More than half 
their number, including their first Governor, John Carver, died that 
winter, but instead of going home in the spring the survivors set 
about building houses for themselves and preparing for another 
winter to come. They wisely made treaties with the Indians by 
which they procured food until they could raise it for themselves, 
and averted contlicts. 

In 1640 the Plymouth Colony reached three thousand. By 
1670 it had reached eight thousand and had twenty towns. At the 
beginning of the reign of Charles I., in 1625, the Puritan party 
in Kngland had become powerful and comprised many men of wealth, 
culture, and social position. Many of these had emigrated to 
America before 1640. In 1628 John Endicott, of Dorchester, took 
connnand of a place the Indians called Naumkeag, and called the 
little colony by the Bible name of Salem, or "Peace." It seems a 
homely illustration of the fact that human nature is never wholly free 
from selfishness, prejudice, and cruelty, that these Puritans who had 
tied from persecution, seeking for freedom of religious thought and 
privilege, should themselves be oppresssive and tyrannical. But 
here in this large new world, these Puritans, attempting to force 
others to accept their doctrines and belief, banished the Baptists, 
hanged the (Quakers, burned the witches, and in' doing this seemed 
to believe they were doing (iod's service. 

There were many slaves in Virginia. The profitable culture of 
tobacco by this cheap labor, the value of their strong arms in felling 
the great forests and preparing the fields for the cotton and the 
corn, was a great convenience and comfort to the Southern settlers, 
who were neither well adapted nor disposed to hard labor under 
sunny skies and in a heated atmosphere. The introduction of cotton 
planting greatly increased the profit of slave labor. We must con- 



settle:ment of new enc^land. 7 

elude that our Southern brethren of those early days found in their 
rapidly accumulating wealth the inspiration which confirmed them 
in the belief that slavery was of divine origin. Here again self- 
interest sits in judgment. 

There were som.e slaves in New F.ngland. The settlers upon 
the rugged New England coast, beneath the crisp, invigorating air 
of a Northern clime, had discovered that the personal labor of them- 
selves and their sons was more profitable than the employment of 
slave labor. They too were clearing away the forests and bringing 
the land to their service. They were planning institutions of learn- 
ing and looking earnestly to God for His blessing upon all their 
endeavors. When the first Massachusetts towns were settled each 
had but one church. Thus the inhabitants of the town and the 
congregation of the church were the same persons. When they met 
for church business it was a parish meeting, and when they met for 
civil business, as to appropriate money for making a road or building 
a schoolhouse, it was a town meeting ; in either case it was a meet- 
ing of free people who governed themselves. When settlers came 
over from England to Massachusetts, they usually came in congre- 
gations, led by their ministers, and settled together in parishes or 
townships. In this way the soil of Massachusetts gradually became 
covered with little self-governing republics called towns, each about 
six miles square, with the village street for its center, surrounded 
by spreading farms whose occupants were the owners of the soil 
The church in the village was not only used for religious services, 
but for a townhouse and also for a schoolhouse. The building of 
houses, fences, roads, and bridges was going on briskly. Lumber, 
furs, and salted fish were sent to England in exchange for clothes, 
tools, and books or whatever articles were needed. Thousands of 
cattle were already grazing in the pastures; pigs were rooting in the 
clearings, helping to make ready the land for the plowman. Wheat, 
rye, and other European grains were soon made to grow here, but 
the settlers were greatly benefited by the native maize or Indian 
corn which they found cultivated by the red men. Amid the hurry 
of pioneer work, education was not forgotten. In order to fit grow- 
ing children for membership in the congregational churches it was 
necessary that they should know how to read the Bible, and schools 
were founded for this purpose. So many of the leading settlers 



8 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

were university graduates, mostly from Cambridge, England, that a 
college seemed necessary for the colony. In 1636 it was voted to 
establish such a college at Newtowne, afterwards Cambridge. Two 
years later a young clergyman, John Harvard, dying childless, 
bequeathed his books and half his estate to the new college. It 
was forthwith called by his name, while in honor of the mother 
university in England the name of the town was changed to Cam- 
bridge. Thus it appears that our forefathers, the Puritans and those 
who came with them, while clearing the forests, building their homes, 
and laying the foundations of a goodly prosperity wherein they 
might enjoy the religious freedom they came here to seek, were at 
the same time laying down wide and deep the foundations for a 
broad and generous education and for a new type of civil and 
religious liberty. 

Here again it appears that self-interest moved the disappear- 
ance of slavery in New England for lack of profit ; that the coming 
here of a large number of men from the halls of learning in England, 
hungry for education for their children, inspired the zeal for educa- 
tional institutions. The reader will also note that the conditions 
under which the two colonies began and grew were as different as 
the results which appeared in the march of their respective civiliza- 
tions. Intercourse between them was. not frequent, neither was the 
commerce great. The Dutch had settled New York, the Quakers 
at Philadelphia, and other colonies had been planted along the New 
Jersey coast wherein also slavery existed. We have thus noted the 
growth of the Massachusetts and Virginia colonies. The sin of 
slavery did not worry the consciences of the people in either colony, 
for slavery had existed among nearly every people from the earliest 
dawn of history. Kidnapping was a common mode of obtaining 
slaves for commerce among ancient people, and it was extensively 
followed by the i'hd-nicians as much as three thousand years ago, 
and the slave trade was then in full vigor. 

Slavery first appears in Chinese records about thirteen centu- 
ries before Christ. Slavery existed among the Assyrians, Babylo- 
nians, and the I'ersians after they had become conquerors. The 
Hebrews had some form of slavery from the time of Abraham. 
The Grecians obtained their slaves through war, commerce, piracy, 
and kidnapping. There were regular markets for their sale at 



SLAVERY IN PAST HISTORY. 9 

Athens, Samos, and Chios. Negro slaves were by them imported 
from Egypt. They were valued for their complexion and were con- 
sidered as luxuries. Unlike the Romans, the Greeks did not seek 
to possess many slaves from motives of luxury and ostentation, but 
of profit. Fifty slaves was a large number for a wealthy Athenian to 
own, while some Romans owned twenty thousand. The Etruscans 
had negro slaves, and the Romans had slaves at the earliest dates 
of their annals. The first slaves of the Romans were prisoners of 
war made from the peoples in their immediate vicinity. So long as 
the wars of the Romans were confined to their own immediate part 
of the world the numbers obtained were not large, but when their 
armies began to conquer distant peoples they were -counted by 
myriads. One of the consequences of the success of ^4^2milius 
Paulus in Macedonia was the sale of 150,000 Epirotes who had 
been seized because their country was friendly to Perseus. In the 
camp of Lucullus in Pontos men were sold for about sixty-two cents 
of our money. In the Jewish war which ended in the destruction 
of Jerusalem, 90,000 persons were made captive. At the height of 
her power Rome had slaves from Briton, Gaul, Scandinavia, Dacia, 
Sarmatia, Germany, Spain, Ethiopia, Greece, Elyria, Thrace, Mace- 
donia, Bithnia, Campadosia, Syria, Media, and almost every other 
country into which ambition or avarice could lead the soldier or trader 
to penetrate. Good doctors, actors, cooks, beautiful women, and 
skilled artists brought heavy sums and ruled high, so did handsome 
boys, eunuchs, and fools. Learned men, grammarians and rhetor- 
icians, also sold at high rates. Some descriptions of artisans and 
laborers were sold at upwards of three hundred dollars of our money. 
The ancients had for the most part white slaves. Such details as 
we have concerning the black slaves of antiquity all serve to show 
that they were not numerous, far less indeed than slaves belonging 
to some of the highest of the white races. 

Soon after the discovery of America the Spaniards began to 
enslave the natives, large numbers of whom were sent to Spain in 
1495. The French, Dutch, and other European nations were 
engaged in the slave traffic. The culture of cotton began in Vir- 
ginia the next year after the landing of twenty slaves at Jamestown 
previously noted. Slavery soon came into existence in nearly every 
part of North America, and Indians were enslaved as well as 



,0 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

negroes. The son of King Philip was sold as a slave. The trade 
between North America and Africa was carried on with vigor. 
Some of the colonies remonstrated against the trade, but they did 
not meet with success as the mother country encouraged it. 



1 



CHAPTER II. 

EARLY CONTESTS OVER SLAVERY AC(,)UISnTON OF TERRLIORY THE 

RACE FOR POWER ADDS TO OUR COUNTRY'S OREATNESS 

RESULTS OF MEXICAN WAR. 

In 1776 it was resolved by the Continental Congress that no 
more slaves should be imported, but when the American constitu- 
tion was formed, in 1788, Congress was prohibited from interdicting 
the habit for twenty years. America was thus in advance of other 
countries in fixing a time for the cessation of a traffic which has 
been as generally condemned as it has been persistently pursued 
for four centuries. "The compromises upon the slavery question 
inserted in the constitution were among the essential conditions upon 
which the Federal Government was organized. If the African slave 
trade had not been permitted to continue for twenty years, if it had 
not been conceded that three-fifths of the slaves should be counted 
in the apportionment of representatives in Congress, if it had not 
been agreed that fugitives from service should be returned to their 
owners, the thirteen States would not have been able in 1787 to 
form a more perfect Union." "These adjustments in the constitu- 
tion were effected after the old confederation had dedicated the 
whole northwest territory to freedom." The ancient Commonwealth 
of Virginia had generously and for the good of all surrendered the 
whole of the territory north of the Ohio River to the General Gov- 
ernment, and in it slavery had forever been prohibited. This vast 
territory comprised what now constitutes five populous and prosper- 
ous States with no inconsiderable portion of a sixth. This was the 
first territory over which the General Government had exclusive 
control and the prompt prohibition of slavery therein by the ordi- 
nance of 1787 is an important and significant fact. The founders 
of the Government not only looked to the speedy extinction of 
slavery, but they abhorred the idea of the geographical line with 
freedom decreed on one side and slavery established on the other. 
But the territory south of the Ohio River belonged to the Southern 
States of the Union : Kentucky to Virginia, Tennessee to North 



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Carolina. Alabama, and Mississippi to Georgia, with certain co-ex- 
tensive claims put forth by South Carolina. When cessions of this 
Southern territory were made to the General Government, the States 
owning it exacted in every case a stipulation that slavery should not 
be prohibited. Thus it came to pass that the Ohio River was the 
dividing line. "North of it freedom was forever decreed; south of 
it slavery was firmly established." 

"Within the limits of the Union as originally formed, the slav- 
ery question had therefore been compromised, the common territory 
partitioned, and the republic, 'half slave, half free,' organized and 
set forth upon its mission. The thirteen States whose independence 
had been acknowledged by George III. comprised a vast area, 
aggregating more than 850,000 square miles. Extensive as was this 
domain, the early statesman did not fail to perceive that our bound- 
aries would not be satisfactory. The Mississippi River was our 
western boundary. On its farther bank from the Balize to the Lake 
of the Woods floated the flag of Spain. Our southern boundary was 
the thirty-first parallel, with the Spanish Floridas, stretching across 
to the Mississippi, between us and the Gulf of Mexico. Although 
we had acquired from Spain the right of deposit and export at New 
Orleans, our western settlers were irritated to have their highway to 
the sea controlled by foreigners and practically intercepting and 
controlling their trade. To remove this embarrassment, secure their 
prosperity, and make them as loyal to the Union as they were patri- 
otic, was one of the great problems confronting the founders of the 
I'nion. 'i'he opportunity for relief came from remote and foreign 
causes, without our own agency; but the courageous statesmanship 
which discerned and grasped the opportunity deserved, as it has 
received, the commemoration of four generations. The boundaries 
of the I'nion were vastly enlarged, but the geographical change was 
not greater than the effect produced upon the political and social 
conditions of the people. The ambitions developed by the acquisi- 
tion of the new territory led to serious conflicts of opinion between 
the North and South — conflicts which steadily grew in intensity 
until by the convulsions of war slavery was finally extinguished." 

"A great European struggle which ended twelve years before 
our kevohition began had wrought important changes upon the 
political control of North America. The seven years' war in 



DISAPPEARANCE OF FRENCH POWER. I3 

Europe, identical in time with the French and Indian War in 
America, was closed in 1763 by numerous treaties to which every 
great power in Europe was in some sense a party. One of the most 
important results to us on this side of the Atlantic was the cession 
of Florida to Great Britain by Spain in exchange for the release of 
Cuba, which the English and Colonial forces under Lord Albemarle 
had wrested from Spain and Spanish authority the preceding year. 
England held Florida for twenty years, when among the disasters 
brought upon her by our Revolution was its retrocession to Spain in 
1783. Still more striking were the losses of France. Fifty years 
before, by the treaty of Utrecht, France had surrendered to England 
the island of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, then including New Bruns- 
wick, and the Hudson Bay territory. She now gave up Canada and 
Cape Breton, acknowledged the sovereignty of Great Britain in the 
original thirteen colonies as extending to the Mississippi, and by a 
separate treaty surrendered Louisiana on the west side of the Mis- 
sissippi with New Orleans on the east side to Spain." 

Thus in 1763 French power disappeared from North America. 
"The last square mile of the most valuable colonial territory ever 
possessed by a European sovereign was lost to France under the 
weak and effeminate rule of Louis XV. The country which France 
surrendered to Spain was of vast but indefinite extent. Added to 
her other North American colonies, it gave to Spain control of more 
than one-half of the continent. She continued in possession of 
Louisiana until the year 1800, when during some European negotia- 
tions Bonaparte concluded a treaty with Charles IV. by which the 
entire territory was retroceded to France. When Napoleon acquired 
Louisiana he appeared to look forward to a career of peace. He 
added to his prestige as a ruler when he regained from Spain the 
American empire which the Bourbons had weakly surrendered thirty- 
seven years before, and he expected a large and valuable addition 
to the trade and resources of France from this vast colonial posses- 
sion. The formal transfer of so great a territory on a distant conti- 
nent was necessarily delayed, and before the captain-general of 
France reached New Orleans, in 1803, Spanish authority, still in 
possession, had become so odious to the inhabitants of the western 
section of the Union, by their suspension of the right of deposit at 
New Orleans, that there was constant danger of an armed collision." 



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Nothing but the careful prudence of President Jefferson could have 
restraiiTed the people from raising an army during the intense excite- 
ment and marching upon New Orleans. Such a transaction must 
have involved us in a war with Spain, from which everything might 
he lost and from which nothing could be gained. 

"Meanwhile Mr. Robert Livingstone, our minister at Paris, was 
pressing the French government for concessions touching the right 
of deposit at New Orleans, and was speaking to the First Consul, as 
a French historian observes, in a tone which 'arrested his attention 
and aroused him to a sense of the new power that was growing 
bevond the sea.' Mr. Monroe was sent out by President Jefferson 
to reinforce Mr. Livingstone, to purchase New Orleans on the east 
side of the Mississippi, and if possible to acquire Florida. France 
was then or about to become its owner. Events beyond the ocean 
were working more rapidly for the interests of the United States 
than anv power they could themselves exert. Before Mr. Monroe 
reached France in the spring of 1803, another war cloud of porten- 
tous magnitude was hanging over Europe. Fearing that in the 
threatened conflict England, by her superior naval force, would 
deprive him of his newly acquired possessions. Napoleon resolved 
to put it beyond her reach. He called his Prime Minister from his 
bed at night and, after discussing the matter with him, ordered him 
to enter aL once into negotiations with Mr. Livingstone for the sale 
of the entire territory of Louisiana to the L^nited States. He 
needed money, a vast amount, for the carrying on of a great war. 
He preferred to sell Louisiana to the United States rather than lose 
it to England, knowing that by the acquisition of this valuable 
American empire England would greatly enhance her power. 
Bonaparte, by a dash in diplomacy as quick and as brilliant as his 
tactics on the held of battle, placed Louisiana 'beyond the reach of 
British power. The timely arrival of Mr. Monroe, who was willing 
to assume responsibilities far beyond his instructions, doubtless 
secured to us the greatest land bargain ever made by a government 
purchase. We paid for Louisiana $15,000,000, a sum which, reck- 
oned by the ability of the United States to pay, was greater than 
one thousand millions would be at the present time. The President 
of a feeble repuBlic, contending for a prize which was held by the 
■jreatest military power of the world, Mr. Jefferson, through his 



ACQUISrilON OF TERRITORY. 



15 



trusted and chosen agents, so conducted his important negotiations 
that the ambition of the United States was successfully interposed 
between the necessities of France and the ambitious designs of 
England. Willing to side with either of those great powers for the 
interests of his own country, not underrating the dangers of war, 
yet ready to engage in it for the control of the great water way to 
the Gulf, President Jefferson made the largest conquest ever peace- 
fully achieved, and at a cost so small that the total sum expended 
for the entire territory does not equal the revenue which has since 
been collected on this soil in a single month in a time of great public 
peril. The country thus acquired forms to-day the States of Louisi- 
ana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota west 
of the Mississippi, Colorado north of the Arkansas River, North and 
South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana, besides the Indian Territory, 
from which has recently been carved Oklahoma. Texas was also 
included in the transfer. The Oregon Territory, which was in the 
Louisiana purchase, did not extend beyond the main range of the 
Rocky Mountains, and our title to that large area, which is included 
in the States of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, rests upon a differ- 
ent foundation, or rather upon a series of claims each of which was 
strong under the law of nations. It is not, however, probable that 
we should have been able to maintain our title to Oregon if we had 
not secured the intervening country. It \vas certainly our purchase 
of Louisiana that enabled us to secure the Spanish title to the shores 
of the Pacific, and without that title we could hardly have main- 
tained our claim. As against England, our title seemed to us to be 
perfect, but against Spain our case was not so strong. The purchase 
of Louisiana may therefore be fairly said to have carried with it 
and secured to us our possession of Oregon. The acquisition of 
Louisiana brought incalculable wealth, power, and prestige to the 
Union, and must always be regarded as a master stroke of policy 
which advanced the United States from a comparatively feeble 
nation, lying between the Atlantic and the Mississippi, to a con- 
tinental power of assured strength and boundless promise." 

The transfer of this vast territory from France to the United 
States was an overwhelming surprise and disappointment to the 
British Government. Had England acquired Louisiana, it would 
have proved in the highest degree embarrassing, if not disastrous, to 



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the Union. If England had seized Louisiana as Bonaparte feared, 
the Floridas, cut off from the other colonies of Spain, would cer- 
tainly have fallen into her hands by easy and prompt negotiations, 
as they did a few years after into the hands of the United States. 
Kngland would thus have had her colonies planted on three land 
sides of the Union, while on the ocean side her formidable navy 
confronted the young republic. No colonial acquisition ever made 
by her on any continent has been so profitable to her commerce and 
so strengthening to her military possessions as that of Louisiana 
would have proved. That England did not at once attempt to seize 
it in disregard of Bonaparte's cession has been a source of surprise 
to many historians. Fortunately for the United States, the patriotic 
and far-seeing administration of President Jefferson was as energetic 
in confirming as it had been in acquiring our title to the invaluable 
domain. 

.\s soon as the treaty was received the President called an extra 
session of Congress which assembled on the 17th of October, 1803. 
Before one month the treaty was confirmed and the President was 
authorized to take possession of the territory of Louisiana and to 
maintain therein the authority of the United States. 

"The conflict of arms did not occur in Europe until nine years 
after; and it is a curious and not unimportant fact that the most 
notable defeat of the British troops in the Second War of Indepen- 
dence, as the struggle of 1812 has been well named, occurred on the 
soil of the territory for whose protection the original precaution had 
been taken by Jefferson." 

in that war the last movement of the British was against New 
Orleans. .An army of 12,000 men under Sir Edward Pakenham 
landed below that city in December ; General Jackson with about 
iialf as many men awaited the attack and was stPongly intrenched in 
position. It was foolish in Pakenham to try an assault, but he and 
his men were Wellington's veterans. No such word as defeat was 
in their dictionary, but the 8th of January, 1815, wrote that word 
for them in big letters. Their assault on Jackson's lines lasted 
about twenty-five minutes, then they made all haste from the field, 
leaving 2,600 killed and wounded; Pakenham was among the slain. 
The American loss was only eight killed and thirteen wounded, for 
they kept mowing down the British ranks so fast that the latter had 



EXTENSION OP^ SLAVERY. 1 7 

no chance to return their fire. Never in all the history of England 
previous to that time was a British army so badly defeated. 

This affair made Andrew Jackson the most prominent personage 
in the country, and as a consequence he was elected President of 
the United States in 1828. In its effect upon the growth, grandeur, 
and prosperity of the United States, no single acquisition of territory 
by any nation has ever surpassed or even equaled it. It seems 
scarcely credible that the acquisition of Louisiana by Jefferson was 
denounced with a bitterness surpassing the partisan rancor with 
which later generations have been familiar. No abuse was too 
malignant, no epithet too coarse, no imprecation too savage to be 
employed by the assailants of the great philosophic statesman who 
laid so broad and deep the foundations of his country's growth and 
grandeur. 

EXTENSION OF SLAVERY IN THE NEW TERRITORY. 

We have previously noted that the famous ordinance of 1787, 
which organized the Northwest Territory, prohibited slavery forever 
within its limits, and so all States north of the Ohio came into the 
Union as free States. The Ohio River was the boundary line between 
freedom and slavery for black men. This boundary line ended at 
the Mississippi River. The vast newly acquired Louisiana Territory 
was national domain. The first State made from it was Louisiana, 
which was admitted as a slave State in 18 12, without much opposi- 
tion from the North. 

Between the years 1790 and 1820 the population of the United 
States increased from four to ten millions. As soon as the war was 
over, in 18 15, the effects of this began to be seen in the growing up of 
new Western States. Indiana was added to the Union in 18 16, 
Mississippi in 1817, Illinois in 1818, and Alabama in 1819. It will 
be noticed that in the admission of the above-named States to the 
Union a kind of balance was preserved between North and South ; 
Mississippi was a counter-weight to Indiana and Alabama to Illinois ; 
that so long as the South had territory from which to carve out a 
slave State south of Mason and Dixon's line, no free State could be 
admitted to the Union without the admission of a slave State at 
the same time, thus preserving the balance of power for the South 
in the Senate. 



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Six years after Louisiana entered the Union Missouri applied 
for admission as a slave State. A violent agitation which continued 
for two years was finally allayed by the famous Missouri Compromise 
of 1820' The Missouri question formally appeared in Congress in 
December, 18 18. When the bill proposing to admit the State came 
before the House, an amendment was introduced providing that the 
further introduction of slavery be prohibited in said State of Mis- 
souri, and that all children born in the State after its admission to 
the Union shall be free at the age of twenty-five years. After excit- 
in<^ and acrimonious debate both branches of the amendment were 
adopted by the House. The Senate rejected the amendment ; the 
House refused to recede. 

''On the second day after the opening of the next Congress, in 
18 19, a memorial was presented in the House of Representatives 
from a convention lately held in the District of Maine, praying for 
the admission of said District into the Union as a separate State on 
equal footing with the original States. On the same day the memo- 
rial presented in the previous (.'ongress for the admission of Mis- 
souri was again presented, asking the admission of Missouri on the 
same terms of independence and equality with the old States as 
prayed for by Maine. Southern men were unwilling that Maine 
should be admitted unless the Enabling Act for Missouri should be 
passed at the same time, and Northern men were unwilling that any 
Knabling Act should be passed for Missouri which did not contain 
an anti-slavery restriction. The House adopted the bill with the 
anti-slavery restriction applied to Missouri; the Senate refused to 
concur, united Maine and Missouri in one bill and passed it with an 
entirely new feature. That feature was simply the provision since 
so widely known as the Missouri Compromise, which forever pro- 
hibited slavery north of 36° and 30' in all th'e territory acquired 
from I''rance by the Louisiana purchase. The Missouri question 
marked a distinct era in the political thought of the country and 
made a pronounced impression on the minds of patriotic men. 
Suddenly without warning the North and the South, the free and 
the slave States, found themselves arrayed against each other in 
violent and absorljing conflict." 

The rapid increase in the production of cotton, the invention 
of tiic cotton gin, the enlarged demand for slave labor, had changed 
the trend of the Southern mind both as to the moral and economic 



EXTENSION OF SLAVERY. I^ 

aspects of slavery. "With the settlement of the Missouri question, 
the anti-slavery agitation subsided as rapidly as it had arisen. The 
Northern States felt that they had absolutely secured to freedom a 
large territory west and north of Missouri. The Southern States 
believed they had an implied and honorable understanding that the 
new States south of the Missouri line could be admitted with slavery 
as they desired." 

'•The great political parties then dividing the country accepted 
the result, and for the next twenty years no agitation of the slavery 
question appeared in any political convention or affected any con- 
siderable body of people." 

In the last war with England, ending in 1815, both Great 
Britain and the United States laid claim to that portion of the Pacific 
coast between California, which belonged to Mexico, and Alaska, 
which belonged to Russia. This country had been held since 18 18 
as a sort of neutral ground subject to the joint control of Great 
Britain and the United States. By 1842 a stream of western 
emigration of Americans was beginning to overflow into the fertile 
Oregon valley and it became a burning question as to whom that 
country should belong. At first the Americans claimed the whole 
up to the parallel of 54° 40', the southern boundary of Alaska. ^lany 
veterans of the Civil War who are still living can remember of hear- 
ing in their childhood the old political war cry of '' 54-40 or fight." 
But in 1846 it was agreed to divide the territory at the 49th parallel. 
All north of that became British Columbia. Out of the southern 
portion we made in due time the noble States of Oregon, Washing- 
ton, and Idaho. 

Our readers will notice by reading the history of our country, 
that, after the admission of Maine and Missouri, whenever a State 
from the North sought admission to the Union, the Southern repre- 
sentatives of both branches of Congress insisted that no such 
admission should be allowed unless at the same time a new Southern 
State should be admitted together with it or at about the same time. 
The astute statesmen of the South were quick to foresee that unless 
more territory for slave States could be acquired south of Mason 
and Dixon's line, the rapid development of northern territory would 
speedily transfer the balance of power in the government to the free 
States. It will be remembered that in 1803, Spain having receded 
Louisiana to France, that power sold it to the United States, and as 



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there had been no well-defined boundary between Louisiana and the 
old Spanish possessions west of it, a controversy at once ensued 
between Spain and the United States on the question of boundaries; 
Spain claiming the region east of the Sabine River and the United 
States urging that they were entitled to the country west as far as 
the Rio Grande. 

In 1819 the long controversy between the United States and 
Spain in regard to the Texan boundary was terminated by the estab- 
lishment of the Sabine as the boundary line. This treaty occasioned 
much dissatisfaction on the part of the Southern and Western States. 
Before 1844 Texas, under the leadership of Gen. Samuel Houston, 
had become a republic whose independence had been acknowledged 
by France, England, Holland, Belgium, and also by the United 
States. The treaty for its annexation to the United States was 
completed and signed by the Texas commissioners and Mr. Cal- 
houn, Secretary of State, April 12, 1844, but was rejected by the 
United States Senate on June 8th. Joint resolutions providing for 
the annexation of Texas passed the United States House of Repre- 
sentatives January 25, 1845, ^^^ ^^^ Senate on February 27, 1845. 
On March ist these resolutions were approved by President Tyler. 
( )n December 29th a joint resolution of Congress declared Texas 
admitted into the Union as a State. Its annexation led to a war 
with Mexico which terminated in 1848. 

It lias been previously noted that from the great territory 
accjuired in the Louisiana purchase only the State of Louisiana was 
admitted singly, without opposition or slavery restriction. That 
thereafter, so long as the South had territory, States were practically 
admitted in pairs. Thus Kentucky and Vermont, Tennessee and 
Ohio, Mississippi and Indiana, Alabama and Illinois, Missouri and 
Maine, Arkansas and Michigan, Florida and Lowa, came into the 
Union in pairs, not precisely at the same moment in every case, but 
always with reference each to the other in order named. 

Of the original thirteen States seven had become free and six 
maintained slavery. Of the fifteen that were added to the Union 
prior to the annexation of Texas eight were slave and seven were 
free. W ith one-half the Senate under the control of the slave-hold- 
ing States and with the constitution declaring that no amendment 
to it should ever destroy the equality of the States in the Senate, 



EXTENSION OF SLAVERY. 2 1 

the Southern leaders occupied a commanding position. Most of 
them were educated, admirably trained as debaters, and highly 
skilled in the management of parliamentary bodies. Looking into 
the future, the Southern men took alarm lest the equality of their 
section should be lost in the Senate and their long control of the 
Federal Government ended by the rapid growth of population in 
the new free territory of the Northwest. After the admission of 
the several States in pairs, the South had no more room for expan- 
sion, for the Indian Territory blocked up all the space left south of 
the Missouri Compromise line, whereas to the north of that line there 
was room enough for a dozen States. It was evident the North was 
destined soon to outweigh the South in Congress, and the South 
dwelt in actual fear that sooner or later the stronger North would 
attempt to abolish slavery. This fear was intensified by a spirit of 
reforming abuses of all sorts which was rapidly growing in the 
North. Along with the improvement of prisons and asylums and 
poorhouses, along with reform of criminal law and the growth of 
charitable societies, assaults began to be made upon negro slavery. 

Such leaders as William Lloyd Garrison, the editor, Wendel 
Phillips, the silver-tongued orator, and Theodore Parker, the learned 
and powerful preacher, were followed by a company of men, small 
in number but eminently respectable, conspicuously able and deter- 
mined. In the national House of Representatives the subject of 
slavery was seldom allowed to rest. The venerable ex-President 
John Quincy x\dams had returned to the House and was a member 
from 1 83 1 until his death in 1848. The more Southern members 
tried to suppress discussion on the slavery question and to deny to 
Abolitionists and Quakers the right to be heard by petition, the 
more ruthlessly he carried on the discussion and insisted upon the 
right of these parties to be heard. Moreover such eminent literary 
writers as Bryant, Irving, Cooper, Poe, and Hawthorne, followed by 
Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes, Prescott, and Emerson, had come to 
distinction in our country. Some had attacked slavery, while all 
were hostile to it. Here we note another important forward move- 
ment inspired by self-interest. Southern people now felt that in 
self-defense they were driven to acquire more territory. The repub- 
lic of Texas was close at hand ; a fine country as large as the 
Austrian Empire with Italy and Switzerland thrown in. The 



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acquisition of Texas was followed as a consequence by the Mexican 
War, which was severely denounced by honest and thinking men as 
the crime of our republic. It was characterized as a land-robbing 

scheme." 

" i;y the treaty of (iaudaloup Hidalgo we acquired from Mexico, 
as a result of the war with that country, the disputed territory in 
Texas and the conquest of the vast country lying between Texas 
and Oregon, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast, a 
domain equal in area to Germany, France and Spain. 

" When a bill appeared in Congress for the appropriation of two 
million dollars to be applied under the direction of the President to 
any extraordinary expenses which may be incurred in our foreign 
intercourse, the bill was modified so as to specify expressly that the 
money was granted for the purpose of negotiating peace with Mexico. 
While this bill was in discussion, David Wilmot, on the 8th day of 
August, 1846, moved a proviso to the two-million-dollar bill, declar- 
ing it to be an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition 
of any territory from Mexico, that neither slavery nor involuntary 
servitude shall ever exist therein. Mr. Wilmot was in the first ses- 
sion of his first Congress, was but thirty-three years of age, and up 
to that moment had not been known beyond his district. His amend- 
ment made his name familiar at once throughout the length and 
breadth of the republic. No question had arisen since the slavery 
agitation of 1S20 that was so elaborately debated. The Wilmot Proviso 
absorbed the attention of Congress for a longer time than the Mis- 
souri Compromise: it produced a wider and deeper excitement in 
the country, and it threatened a more serious danger to the peace 
and integrity of the Union. The consecration of the territory of 
the United .States to freedom became from that day a rallying cry 
for every shade of anti-slavery sentiment. The feeling in all sections 
l)ecame inten.se on the issue thus presented, and it proved a sword 
which cleft asunder political associations that had been close and 
intimate for a lifetime." 

"The ])ill with the Wilmot Proviso attached failed of a passage, 
but the country was aroused to this burning question on both sides 
of Ma.son and Dixon's line. A battle was on between the giants 
which was to rage in angry discussion until amid the lurid flames of 
the Civil War slavery should be forever extinguished." 



CHAPTER III. 

DISCUSSIONS AND COMPROMISES OF 1850 FUCI'IIVE SLAVE LAW 

"UNCLE TOM'S cabin" NAMES OF MEN WE KNEW IN WAR 

TIMES — REPEAL OF MISSOURI COMPROMISE THREATENED DIS- 
UNION KANSAS-NEBRASKA TURMOIL DRED SCOTT DECISION 

DOUGLAS AND LINCOLN JOHN BROWN. 

While considering the questions known as the Compromise of 
1850, it was hoped by many that the slavery question could be 
finally settled by prolonging the Missouri Compromise line of 
36° and 30' to the Pacific coast, and allowing slavery to the south 
of it, a potent factor had appeared in the discovery of gold in Cali- 
fornia. The rush of population into this immense empire, extending 
along the Pacific coast from Oregon to Mexico partly north and 
partly south of 36° and 30^, promptly applied for admission as a 
free State. It it were to be admitted as a free State the South 
demanded some kind of an equivalent. After a long and heated 
debate, the question was settled by the adoption of a group of com- 
promises proposed by the venerable Henry Clay, whose Missouri 
Compromise had for thirty years done so much to preserve the 
Union in peace. California was admitted as a free State and in 
return two new Territories, Utah and New Mexico, were organized 
without the Wilmot Proviso. Slave trade was abolished in the 
District of Columbia and in return a stringent law was passed for the 
the arrest of fugitive slaves in the Northern States. It was believed 
that these compromises would set the slavery question at rest. In 
his inaugural address President Pierce pledged himself to the 
upholding of these compromise measures. There is no doubt that 
a large majority of the people of the United States, North and 
South, were satisfied with the proclamation. The year 1853 was 
politically as quiet as Monroe's era of good feeling, and when Con- 
gress came together in its closing month, President Pierce, in his 
first message, dwelt impressively upon the dangers we had passed 
and upon the blessings that were in store for us. He solemnly 
declared that "when the grave shall have closed over all that are 



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now ei 



mdeavoring to meet the obligations of duty the year 1850 will 
be recurred to as a period of anxious apprehension." Evidently 
remem])ering the compromise measures of that year and the pledge 
cMven by the convention which nominated him, to resist all attempts 
at renewing the agitation of the slavery question in or out of Con- 
gress, he gave assurance that this repose should suffer no shock 
during his term if he had power to avert it. These words were 
addressed to Congress on the 5th day of December, 1853, and were 
approved perhaps by a majority in every State both North and 
South. 

Notwithstanding all the vows of fealty to the compromise of 
1850 the pro-slavery leaders of the South were not contented with 
the aspect of affairs. In one month from the utterance of the 
President's prophetic words, an ominous movement was made in 
Congress. The result of the Mexican War was disappointing to the 
South. Its most striking effect was the addition to the Union of a 
large and imposing free State on the Pacific. Since the admission 
of Louisiana, in 1812, the balancing of power in the Senate had 
been sacredly observed, but now by the admission of California the 
claim of equality had been disregarded. The superstition which 
upheld it was dispelled and the defenders of slavery could only see 
a long procession of free States marching in from the northwest to 
reinforce a power already irresistibly strong. " Webster and Clay had 
recently died; in their place were to be seen, among the foremost 
figures of the North, Seward, of New York, Chase, of Ohio, Sumner, 
of Massachusetts, men prepared to take a bolder stand against 
slavery. Calhoun had also been removed by death, and among 
the Southern leaders Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, was coming to 
the front." 

The first source of irritation in the compromises was the fugi- 
tive slave law. It is true that the purpose of this measure was 
simply to enforce provisions which had always formed part of the 
Federal constitution. With the growth of anti-slavery sentiment at 
the .North, as slave catching grew more and more unpopular, several 
.Vorthcrn States passed personal liberty laws for the protection of 
negroes from persons claiming them as slaves. These personal 
liberty laws annoyed the slaveholders and the fugitive slave law of 
1850 was revised by Congress in such a manner as to counteract 



THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. 25 

them. In response to the amended fugitive slave law, several 
Northern States passed new and stronger personal liberty laws, some 
of which went to the very verge of nullifying an act of Congress. 
The publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Mrs. Harriet Beecher 
Stowe, in 1852, was probably the most effective response to the 
fugitive slave law and did more to arouse public sentiment against 
slavery than any other publication of the period. 

Directly after the assurance so impressively given by President 
Pierce, an ominous movement was made, not by Southern men but 
by a Northern senator. Stephen A. Douglas, senator from Illinois, 
brought in a bill for organizing two territorial governments as the 
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, on the principle of "squatter 
sovereignty." It was the principle of local option applied to slavery. 
Douglas wished to have territorial government set up for what was 
known as the Platte country, and on this occasion he thought he 
saw a chance for allaying the excitement about slavery. The prin- 
ciple was : Let slaveholders and free people, as many as will, settle 
the territory without let or hindrance. When people enough have 
settled to be admitted as a State, let them determine the question of 
slavery or no slavery by a vote in convention. 

Many of those who voted for the Kansas-Nebraska bill be- 
lieved that this concession to the slaveholders would at last put a 
stop to the agitation. Nothing could have been more shortsighted 
or done more to increase the friction. In point of fact it immediately 
solidified North and South against each other and led speedily to the 
great Civil War. In the course of 1854 and 1855 all Northern men, 
of whatever party, who were resolved that slavery should extend no 
further, drew together in the name of anti-Nebraska men. They 
soon became organized into a party with the name Republican. 
The party was made up of anti-slavery Democrats, anti-slavery 
Whigs and Free-soilers, and the principle upon which it was based 
was that which we have formerly seen in the Wilmot Proviso, the 
absolute prohibition of slavery in the Territories. Mr. Dixon, of 
Kentucky, was the first man from the South to reopen the contro- 
versy which was not to cease until the continent was drenched in 
blood. " He gave notice early in January, 1854, that when the bill 
to organize the Territory of Nebraska should come before the 
Senate, he would move that the Missouri Compromise be repealed 



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and that the citizens of the several States shall be at liberty to take 
and hold their slaves within any of the Territories. It was very 
soon found that this was not a capricious movement by Mr. Dixon 
alone, but that behind him there was a settled determination on the 
part of the pro-slavery men to break down the ancient barrier and 
to remove the honored landmark of 1820." The Senate had a large 
Democratic majority. There was probably no one among them 
who had not, in the presidential contest of 1852, publicly and sol- 
emnly vowed that the compromise measures of 1850 were a final 
settlement of the slavery question, not in any event nor upon any 
pretext to be disturbed. It was especially embarrassing and peri- 
lous to Northern senators to violate pledges so recently made and 
so frequently repeated. To escape the sharp edge of condemnation, 
sure to follow such a transaction, a pretense was put forth that the 
compromise of 1820 was in conflict with the compromise of 1850, 
and that it was necessary to repeal the former in order that the 
doctrine of non-intervention with slavery in the Territories should 
become the recognized policy for all the public domain of the 
I'nited States. Mr. Douglas was the first to adopt this construction 
and indeed he was the inventor of it. He called it the Doctrine of 
Non-intervention. In one of the sections of the bill for the organ- 
ization of the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, the Missouri 
Compromise of 1820 was declared to be inoperative and void, 
because inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Con- 
gress with slavery in the States and Territories as recognized by 
the compromise measures of 1850. The bill further declared that 
its true intent and meaning was not to legislate slavery into any 
Territory or State, and not to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the 
people perfectly free to regulate their domestic institutions in their 
own way. 

'•The North was fairly stunned by the proposition. Had he 
proposed to abolish the constitution itself, the shock could hardly 
have been greater. Thenceforward new alliances were rapidly 
formed. I'he anti-slavery development in the North was not more 
mtense than the pro-slavery development in the South. Every other 
issue was merged in the one absorbing demand by Southern slave- 
holders for what they sincerely believed to be their rights in the 
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REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE. 27 

political landmarks disappeared, and party alliances of three gener- 
ations were swept aside in a day. It was felt to be a question not 
of expediency but of morality, not of policy but of honor. It not 
only enlisted men, but women took part in the agitation. The 
power of the church on both sides of the dividing line was used with 
great effect in shaping public opinion and directing political action. 

"The Missouri Compromise was repealed in May. Before the 
end of the year a large majority of the people of the North and 
South were arrayed against each other on a question which touched 
the interest, the pride, the conscience and the religion of all who 
were concerned in the controversy. Each felt itself to be altogether 
right. Thus the two sections stood confronting each other at the 
close of the year 1854." 

The Democratic party, now controlled by Southern leaders, 
determined that slavery should be allowed and entitled to protection 
of law in any Territory where the slaveholder saw fit to go with his 
slaves. These were regarded as chattels or property which a man 
might take with him as he would his horses, cattle or domestic 
animals. The administration of President Pierce appears to have 
been wholly subservient to Southern demands. The first trial of 
"squatter sovereignty" took place in Kansas because that Territory 
was the nearest to the slave States. It began with bloody fights 
between pro-slavery and anti-slavery squatters, each trying to keep 
the other out. From the slave States of Missouri and Arkansas 
squatters went in with their slaves, while on the other hand Northern 
emigrants, urged on by anti-slavery societies in the North, flocked 
into the Territory. The irregular fighting went on for three years, 
from 1855 to 1858; by that time the Northern settlers in Kansas 
were in such an overwhelming majority that all hope of making a 
slave State of it was abandoned. The evil passions engendered by 
this struggle were reflected in Congress. 

On May 19 and 20, 1856, Charles Sumner, senator from 
Massachusetts, in a powerful speech on Kansas affairs, made some 
personal allusions to Senator Butler. Shortly afterward Butler's 
nephew, Preston Brooks, a congressman from South Carolina, 
attacked Sumner while he was working at his desk in the Senate 
chamber, beating him upon the head with a heavy cane until he had 
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intense indignation in the North. A motion to expel Brooks was 
defeated for lack of the needful two-thirds vote. In July Brooks 
resigned and went home to South Carolina, where after three weeks 
of enthusiastic welcome and lionizing he was re-elected to Congress 
by an almost unanimous vote, only six votes being cast against him. 
The i)residential campaign of 1856, in which the Democratic candi- 
date, lames IJuchanan, was elected over John C. Fremont, Free Soil 
candidate, revealed a situation full of danger. The most noticeable 
thing was the great strength shown by this new party, scarcely more 
than two years old. It alarmed the Southern leaders. The free 
States had flanked them by the admission of California with an 
anti-slavery constitution. The Southern acquisition of Kansas 
would pierce the very center of the army of freedom and would ena- 
ble the South thenceforth to dictate terms to the North. Instead of 
the line of 36° and 30', upon which they had so frequently offered 
to compromise, they would have carried the northern boundary of 
slave territory to the 40th parallel of latitude and even beyond. 
Their policy was not absolute but alternative. If the slaveholders 
could maintain their supremacy in the Union they would prefer to 
remain; if not, they would break up the Government and form a 
confederacy of their own. 

To make such a confederacy as they desired, they must not 
take from the Union a small section but must divide it from ocean 
to ocean. They aimed to secure by far the larger share of the vast 
domain comprising the United States. The design was audacious, 
but from their standpoint it w^as not illogical. Their entire indus- 
trial system was founded upon an institution which was bitterly 
opposed in the free States. They could see no way, and they no 
longer desired to see a way, by which they might rid themselves of 
the servile labor which was at once their strength and their weak- 
ness. Their point of view was so radically different than that held 
by a large number of Northern people, that it left scarcely an oppor- 
tunity for reasoning together. In the South they saw and felt their 
danger and they determined at all hazards to defend themselves 
against the destruction of their social and industrial fabric. They 
did not aim at small things. They had determined at mastery 
within the Union or a continental empire outside of it. While the 
South h;id thus resolved to acquire control of the large Territory of 



THE DRED SCOTT DECISION. 29 

Kansas, the North had resolved to save it to freedom. The policy 
of the Southern leaders became aggressive to the point of reckless- 
ness. In this they were encouraged by the attitude of a large 
portion of the Northern people, who were ready to make extreme 
concessions in order to avert the threatened secession. The policy 
of President Buchanan's administration was one of concession. 
''During his administration the attacks of the abolitionists upon the 
institution of slavery grew fiercer day by day. The all-absorbing 
question was discussed by newspapers, magazines, by lecturers on 
the platform and by preachers in the pulpit. There was a wide- 
spread feeling of uneasiness, though few people realized how speedily 
the war was approaching, and it was generally believed that in some 
way so great a calamity could be averted. By 1857 the progress of 
the Kansas experiment had begun to show to the slaveholders that 
'squatter sovereignty' would not help them. In peopling a new 
Territory Northern resources were too great for them. I nder Pres- 
ident Buchanan they kept up the demand that the Federal Govern- 
ment should protect slavery in all the Territories, an extreme policy 
which the subserviency of President Pierce encouraged them to 
demand, until at last they had alienated the great body of Northern 
Democrats and thus prepared the way for Republican victory." 

THE DRED SCOTT DECISION. 

The Democratic party, led by the slaveholders of the South, 
controlled every department of the Government. The effort to force 
slavery upon Kansas was resumed with increased zeal. The supreme 
court came to their aid and not long after the new administration 
was installed delivered their famous decision in the Dred Scott case. 
" Dred Scott was the slave of an army surgeon, whose home was in 
Missouri. In 1834 his master took him to Illinois, where he lived 
four years, thence Dred accompanied the surgeon into the Minnesota 
Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the act of Congress called 
the Missouri Compromise. Thence after a while they returned to 
Missouri. Some time afterward Dred was whipped and brought 
suit for damages in an action of assault and battery. He claimed 
to be a free man. He could not have remained a slave in Illinois 
and Minnesota and had therefore come back to Missouri as a free 
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one judgment was in Dred's favor. At length the case reached the 
supremr court of the United States, which gave its decision in 1857. 
'I'he tjuestion before the supreme court was a question of jurisdic- 
tion. The court decided that the Missouri Compromise was uncon- 
stitutional, and, therefore, null and void from the start; that Dred 
Scott was not a citizen of Missouri, but a thing; that slave owners 
could migrate from one part of the Union to another, and take their 
negroes with them, just as they could their horses and dogs. The 
practical effect of the Dred Scott Decision would have been in 
course of time to make the whole area of the United States slave 
territory." Instead of strengthening the Democratic party the whole 
effect of the Dred Scott Decision was to develop a more determined 
type of the anti-slavery agitation. This tendency was promoted by 
the lucid and exhaustive opinion of Benjamin R. Curtis, one of the 
two dissenting judges. It upheld with unanswerable argument the 
absolute right of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the Territories 
of the Cnion. It represented the well-settled conclusion of the most 
learned jurists ; was in harmony with the enlightened conscience 
of the North and gave a powerful rallying cry to the opponents of 
slavery. The recklessness of the Southern leaders, probably in- 
creased by this decision, was shown in two things. In accordance 
with the express understanding at the time the constitution was 
framed, C^ongress in 1808 prohibited the importation of slaves from 
Africa. "By 1857 it was becoming apparent that the illegal traffic 
had been resumed on a considerable scale and that African slaves 
were brought into our Southern ports with small attempt at conceal- 
ment. The Government did little to hinder this slave trade, and it 
went on growing in dimensions until it was stopped by the Civil 
War. A small party in Kansas with the aid of the President and a 
party in Congress tried to force a slave constit-ution, known as the 
*Lecompton Constitution,' upon Kansas, in spite of the determined 
opposition of the great majority of the people of that Territory." 
Tile fraudulent legislature of Kansas called a convention which met 
at Lecompton and submitted a pro-slavery constitution to the 
people, preparatory to asking the admission of Kansas as a State. 
"The people were not permitted to vote for or against the constitu- 
tion, but were narrowed to the choice of taking the constitution with 
slavery or the constitution without slavery." If the decision should 



ADMITTANCE OF KANSAS TO THE UNION. 3 1 

be adverse to slavery, there were still some provisions in the consti- 
tution not submitted to popular decision which would postpone the 
operation of the free clause. The whole contrivance was fraudulent, 
wicked and incredible. The free State men refused to have any- 
thing to do with the scandalous device. The constitution with 
slavery was therefore adopted by an almost unanimous vote of those 
who were not citizens of Kansas. Many thousand votes were 
returned which were never cast at all, either by citizens of Kansas 
or marauders from Missouri. No moderate language can describe 
the enormity of the whole transaction. This fraudulent constitution 
in no way represented the will or the wishes of the people of Kan- 
sas. Shameful and shameless as was the entire procedure, it was 
approved by President Buchanan. The " Lecompton Constitution" 
was transmitted to Congress, accompanied by a message from the 
President recommending the prompt admission of the State. He 
treated the anti-slavery population of Kansas as in rebellion against 
lawful authority, recognized the invaders from Missouri as rightfully 
entitled to form a constitution for the State and declared that "Kan- 
sas is at this moment, February 2, 1858, as much a slave State as 
Georgia or South Carolina." Referring to the Dred Scott Decision 
the President declared that "it had been solemnly adjudged by the 
highest judicial tribunal known to our laws that slavery exists in 
Kansas by virtue of the constitution of the United States." 

" The attempt to admit Kansas under the fraudulent Lecompton 
Constitution proved disastrous to the Democratic party. The first 
decided break was that between Buchanan and Douglas. Douglas, 
the champion of 'squatter sovereignty,' refused to sustain the iniq- 
uity of 'squatter sovereignty.' He had gone far with the extreme 
pro-slavery men, but refused to take this step. When the Dred 
Scott Decision was delivered he applauded it, and as Mr. Lincoln 
charged had assented to it before it was pronounced, but events 
traveled too fast for him." 

SELF-INl'EREST AGAIN CONTROLS ACTION. 

"The pro-slavery men of the South were so eager for the posses- 
sion of Kansas that they could not adjust their measures to the 
needs of Mr. Douglas's political situation. They looked at the 
question from one point, Mr. Douglas from another. They saw that 



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if Kansas could be forced into the Union with the Lecompton Con- 
siilui'ion thev would gain a slave State. Mr. Douglas saw that if he 
should continue to aid that political crime he would lose the support 
of his own State, Illinois. It was more important to the South to 
secure Kansas as a slave State than to carry Illinois for Mr. Doug- 
las. It was more important for Mr. Douglas to hold Illinois for 
himself than to give the control of Kansas to the South. His 
Northern friends had been for some time persuaded that his only 
escape from the dangerous embarrassments surrounding him was 
the admission of Kansas as a free State. He determined, therefore, 
to take a bold stand against the admission on this issue. It was an 
important event not only to himself, but to his party and still more 
important to the country. 

'• Rarely in our history has the action of a single person been 
attended by a public interest so universal, by applause so hearty in 
the North, by denunciation so bitter in the South. In the memo- 
rable struggle of Mr. Douglas with the pro-slavery element in Con- 
gress he was bravely sustained by Senator Broderick, of California, 
'i'he contest grew so bitter in that State that it led to a duel, in 1859, 
between Mr. Hroderick and Judge Terry, a prominent Democrat of 
.Southern birth. This bloody tragedy created an excitement greater 
than had ever attended a duel, excepting only that in which Hamil- 
ton fell at the hands of Burr. The oration of Senator Baker deliv- 
ered in San Francisco by Senator Broderick so stirred the people 
that violence was feared. Its influence contributed to the triumph 
of Mr. Lincoln in California the following year. 

•' Without the aid of Douglas the crime against Kansas would 
have been complete ; with his aid it was prevented. The Lecomp- 
ton bill passed the Tnited States Senate by a vote of thirty-three to 
twenty-live. The administration of Buchanan with all its zeal could 
not force the Lecompton bill through the National House. Finding 
this bill defeated, William H. English, of Indiana, offered a new 
bill, submitting the entire constitution to the people. If adopted, 
the constitution carried a generous land grant to the State ; if 
rejected, the alternative was the withdrawal of the land grant and 
the indefinite postponement of the whole question of admission as a 
Slate. This bill was at last forced through the House. The Senate 
pronipilv conrunrd. ]iut Kansas would not sell her birthright for 



CONSPIRACY AGAINST HUMAN FREEDOM. 33 

a mess of pottage. She had at last a chance for a free vote and 
rejected the nefarious constitution in toto, land grant and all. The 
struggle was over. The South was defeated. The North was 
victorious. 

'' The repeal of the Missouri Compromise had not brought profit 
or honor to those who planned it. It had engendered strife, anger 
and hatred between the North and South. It produced evil only 
and that continually. The repeal in the judgment of the North was 
a great conspiracy against human freedom. In the Southern States 
it was viewed as an honest effort to recover rights of which they 
had been unjustly deprived. Each section held with firmness to its 
own belief and the four years of agitation had separated them so 
widely that a return to fraternal feeling seemed impossible. Confi- 
dence, the plant of slowest growth, had been destroyed. Who could 
restore it to life and strength? In the South Mr. Douglas was 
covered with maledictions; the administration at Washington was 
intensely hostile to him. The Democrats of Illinois and indeed 
the whole North were in a forgiving spirit towards him, but Illinois 
Republicans were less amiable. They would not forget that he had 
broken down the anti-slavery barrier which had been reared with 
toil and sanctified with time. He had not, as they alleged, turned 
back from any test exacted by the South until he had reached the 
point where another step forw^ard involved political death for him- 
self. The disruption in the Democratic party inspired the strong 
Republican party in Illinois and they prepared to contest the return 
of Douglas to the Senate by formally nominating Abraham Lincoln 
as an opposing candidate. The contest that ensued was memorable. 
The Democratic party, which sustained Douglas, was rent with fac- 
tions. The administration was irrevocably hostile to him. The 
Republicans were earnest and aggressive. He had before him an 
Herculean task. He was everywhere known as a debater of singu- 
lar skill, fertile in resources and master of logic. He was an able, 
audacious, and almost an unconquerable opponent in public discus- 
sion. Idolized by his followers, it would have been impossible to 
find any man of the same type able to meet him before the people 
of Illinois. Mr. Lincoln, the man who was chosen to meet him, 
who challenged him to combat, was radically different in every phase 
of character. Scarcelv could there be two men more unlike in 



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.ii.J moral constitution than Abraham Lincoln and Stephen 
A. Doucrlas. Mr. Lincoln was calm and philosophic; he loved 
truth for the sake of truth. He would not be himself deceived nor 
deceive others by false premises. He had pondered deeply on the 
issues and had given anxious thought to the problems of free gov- 
ernment and to the destiny of the republic. His logic was severe 
and faultless. He did not resort to fallacy and could detect it in 
his opponent and expose it with merciless directness." 

-'Thus fitted for the contest these men proceeded to a discussion 
which chained the attention of the nation. Its immediate effect 
was so striking as to affect the organization of parties, and its sub- 
sequent effect so powerful as to change the fate of millions. Con- 
trary to the advice of time-serving friends and politicians and fully 
cognizant of the magnitude of the important contest, Mr. Lincoln 
franklv stated his convictions. ' I believe this Government cannot 
endure permanently half slave and half free ; a house divided against 
itself cannot stand. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do 
not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be 
divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.' x^t the 
close of the debate in a certain sense each had won a victory and 
each had incurred a defeat. Douglas was re-elected to the Senate, 
but the means by which his election was won proved to be his 
destruction in the wider field. Mr. Lincoln's victory and defeat 
combined in the end to promote his political fortunes and to open 
to him the illustrious career which followed. This notable debate 
was not a mere incident in American politics, it marked an era. 
Its inriuence and effect were co-extensive with the republic. The 
political leaders of the South discovered that Douglas had been 
forced by Democratic public opinion in the North to renounce the 
very doctrine which to them was the only safeguard of their peculiar 
institution of slavery; that in renouncing it he had in fact, if not 
in form, accepted the very principles laid down by Mr. Lincoln. 
Mr. Lincoln had become in fact the sage and prophet of his 
people. So acute a statesman as Douglas could not fail to see 
that at every step of his controversy with Southern Democrats he 
was justifying the philosophy of Lincoln that the country was to 
become wholly free or wholly under control of the slave power. 
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AN EXTRAORDIXARY OCCURRENCE. 35 

threatened disruption of the Democratic party. Efforts to har- 
monize proved futile. In Congress the breach was continually 
widening. That a party whose history was interwoven with the 
glory of the republic should now come to its end in a quarrel over 
the status of the negro in a region where his labor was not wanted 
was to many of its members as incomprehensible as it was sorrow- 
ful. Exasperating anger was aroused and men refused to listen to 
reason. They were borne along they knew not whither or by what 
force. Time might have restored the party to harmony, but at the 
very height of the factional contest in the party the representatives 
of both sections were hurried forward to the national convention of 
i860 with principles subordinated to passion and with judgment 
dissipated by a desire for revenge. The South was unnaturally and 
unjustifiably excited. In this condition of mind, when the most 
ordinary events were measured with misapprehension, they were 
startled by an occurrence of extraordinary character." 

JOHN BROWN. 

''On a quiet morning in October, 1859, with no warning what- 
ever to the inhabitants, the United States arsenal at Harper's 
Ferry. Virginia, was found to be in the possession of an invading 
mob. The town was besieged, many of its citizens made prisoners, 
telegraph wires cut, railway trains stopped by a force which the 
people, as they were aroused from sleep, had no means of estimat- 
ing. A resisting body was soon organized, militia came in from 
the surrounding country, and regular troops were hurried from 
Washington. By the opening of the second day, a force of 1,500 
men surrounded the arsenal, and when the insurgents surrendered 
it was found there had been but twenty-two in all, four only were 
alive, including their leader, John Brown. The matter was taken 
up with hot wrath by the South, Congress promptly investigated. 
The committee found no sentiment in the North justifying Brown, 
but the irritating, offensive course of Mr. Mason, the Virginia sena- 
tor, called forth a great deal of defiant anti-slavery expression which 
in his judgment was tantamount to treason. Brown was tried and 
executed. The mad scheme of John Brown tended to intensify 
excitement and alarm the South. It had the tendency to develop 
and strengthen Republican conviction in the North." 



CHAPTER IV. 

I-OLITICAI. KKVOI.UTION OF 1 86o — FORMATION OF NEW POLITICAL 

ALLIANCES. 

'• It was at the height of this overwrought condition of the 
Southern mind that the National Convention of the Democratic 
party met at Charleston on the 23d of April, i860. The convention 
had been assembled in South Carolina as the most discontented 
and extreme of Southern States, in order to signify that the Democ- 
racy could harmonize on her soil and speak peace to the nation 
through the voice which had so often spoken peace before. But 
the Xorthern Democrats failed to comprehend their Southern allies. 
Southern delegates had come to the convention in a truculent spirit, 
as men who felt they were enduring wrongs that must then and 
there be righted. They w^anted no evasion ; they would accept no 
delay. The sessions of the first day were occupied in the work of 
organization. It was evident from the first that the spirit of the 
slave system, which had become the very nemesis of the nation, was 
there full fraught with mischievous intent. On the morning of the 
second day of the session, Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts, was 
chosen permanent president of the convention, and a vice president 
and secretary from each State were appointed. The choice of a 
president was very satisfactory. On taking the chair, Mr. Cushing 
addressed the convention with great vigor. He declared it to be 
the mission of the Democratic party to 'reconcile popular freedom 
with constituted order,' and to maintain 'the sacred reserved 
rights of the sovereign States.' He declared the Republicans to be 
those who were laboring to overthrow the constitution. He declared 
it to be the ' high and noble part of the Democratic party of the 
I'nion to withstand, to strike down and conquer these banded 
enemies of the constitution.' These utterances formed the key- 
note that harmonized with the feeling of a large body of the dele- 
gates, and was a symphony to their action. There were thirty-three 
States in the Inion in i860, eighteen free and fifteen slave-holding. 
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A POLITICAL REVOLUTION, 37 

seventeen, and left to the North but sixteen members on all com- 
mittees. The Democratic delegates from the Pacific States assumed 
a weighty responsibility in thus giving to the disunionists of the 
South preliminary control of the convention, by permitting them to 
shape authoritatively all the business to be submitted. The com- 
mittee on resolutions promptly agreed on every article except that 
relating to slavery. Here they divided stubbornly and irreconcila- 
bly. The South required an explicit assertion of the right of citizens 
to settle in the Territories with their slaves, a right not to be 
destroyed or impaired by Congress or by congressional or territorial 
legislation. They required the further declaration, that it is the 
duty of the Federal Government, when necessary, to protect slavery 
in the Territories and wherever else its constitutional authority 
extended. Thus they demanded that Congress should never legis- 
late against slavery, either to control or to suppress, but that they 
might and must legislate in its favor and for its protection. The 
Douglas men would not yield ; they were more enraged by the domi- 
neering course of the Southern Democrats of the committee. The 
contest was transferred to the convention and there the Douglas 
men were in a majority. The labors of the committee resulted 
in the production of three reports, and on the following morning 
these were submitted to the convention. The majority report in 
substance conformed to the demand of the Southern delegates above 
stated. The minority report was that of the Douglas creed of Pop- 
ular Sovereignty. A motion to adopt the minority report or Douglas 
platform slightly modified was now offered by B. M, Samuels. It 
was adopted by a handsome majority. In the convention, now, as 
in the committee, the voices of Oregon and California, free-labor 
States, were with those of the slave-labor States. Preconcerted 
rebellion now lifted its head defiantly. The spirit manifested in the 
resolutions, speeches and deportment of the representatives of the 
slave interest now assumed tangible form in action. L. P. Walker, 
who was afterward one of the most active insurgents against the 
National Government as secretary of war to Jefferson Davis, led 
the way. He spoke for the delegates from Alabama who had been 
instructed by the convention that appointed them not to acquiesce 
in or submit to any Popular Sovereignty platform, and in the event 
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contingency had now occurred and the Alabama delegates formally 
withdrew in accordance with the previous arrangement. They were 
followed by all the delegates from Mississippi, all but two from 
Louisiana, all from Florida and Texas, three from Arkansas and all 
from South Carolina. On the following morning twenty-six of the 
thirty-four (Georgia delegates withdrew and Senator Bayard and 
Representative Whitely, delegates from Delaware, also left the con- 
vention and joined the seceders, who had repaired to St. Andrews 
Hall the preceding evening for consultation. The disruption of 
the Democratic party represented in convention was now complete. 
The wedge of slavery had split it beyond restoration. The event 
had been previously and amply provided for in secret and when 
D. C. (llenn, of Mississippi, in announcing the withdrawal of the 
delegates from that State said : ' I tell Southern men here and for 
them I tell the North, that in less than sixty days you will find a 
united South standing side by side with us.' There was long and 
vehement cheering, especially from the South Carolinians who were 
joyous over the result. Charleston that night was the scene of 
unbounded pleasurable excitement. So the arrogant representatives 
of the slave-interest, with an eye single to the accomplishment of an 
intensely selfish end, began a rebellion, first against the dominant 
party then in possession of the National Government, and secondly 
against that (Government itself, which resulted in a bloody Civil War 
and the utter destruction of the vast and cherished interest for the 
conservation of which they cast down the gauntlet and invited the 
arbitrament of the sword." 

"The remaining delegates failed to nominate a candidate in 
consequence of a two-thirds rule adopted before the seceders left, 
re(|uiring a two-thirds vote of a full convention. They, therefore, 
adjourned to meet in the city of Baltimore in Majyland on the i8th 
day of June following. 

"The seceding delegates selected James A. Bayard as their 
presiding officer. They called themselves the Constitutional Con- 
vention and sneeringly called those whom they had left the 
'Rump' Convention. They adjourned to meet in the city of 
Richmond in Virginia on the second Monday of June following 
for further action. 'I'he seceders reassembled in Metropolitan Hall 
.n Richmond, Monday, the nth of June. In the meantime some 



THE ADJOURNED DEMOCRATIC NA ITONAL CONVENTION. 39 

leading Southern congressmen and other conspirators had issued an 
address from Washington urging that the Richmond Convention 
should refrain from all important action, adjourn to Baltimore, and 
there, re-entering the regular convention, if possible defeat the 
nomination of Mr. Douglas, and thus as they said, with well-feigned 
honesty of expression, 'make a final effort to preserve the unity 
and harmony of the Democratic party.' 

" The adjourned Democratic National Convention reassembled 
in Baltimore on the i8th of June. The question of admitting the 
seceding delegates was the first to present itself. Mr. Cushing, 
again in the chair, refused to decide and referred the matter to 
the convention. The discussion upon the two reports of the 
committee on credentials was heated and acrimonious. Finally 
the majority report was adopted, admitting the Douglas men. 
Again there was rebellion against the fairly expressed will of 
the majority. The whole or a part of the delegation from Virginia, 
North Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland, California, Delaware and 
Missouri withdrew. On the following morning the hopes of those 
desiring unity were utterly blasted when Mr. Cushing, the president 
of the convention, and a majority of the Massachusetts delegates 
also withdrew. 'We put our withdrawal before you,' said Mr. 
Butler of that delegation, 'upon the simple ground, among others, 
that there has been a withdrawal in part of the majority of the 
States, and further upon the ground that I will not sit in a conven- 
tion where the African slave trade — which is piracy by the laws 
of my country — is approvingly advocated.' On the retirement of 
Mr. Cushing, Governor David Todd, of Ohio, one of the vice presi- 
dents, took the chair and the convention proceeded to ballot for 
candidates for President and Vice President. The final result was 
the nomination of Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, and Herschell V. 
Johnson, of Georgia. Thus was started the campaign of what w^as 
known as the Douglas party, whose platform of principles assumed 
not to know positively whether slavery might or might not have law- 
ful existence in the Territories without the action of the inhabitants 
thereof, but expressed a willingness to abide by the decision of the 
supreme court in all cases." 

The seceders, new and old, assembled on Saturday the 23d and 
permanently organized by the appointment of Mr. Cushing to pre- 
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Presidency. Joseph Lane, of Oregon, was nominated for Vice 
l»resident. Their resolutions declared that no power existed that 
might lawfully control slavery in the Territories; that slavery existed 
in any Territory in full force whenever a slaveholder and his slaves 
entered it, and that it was the duty of the National Government to 
protect it there. 

Six days after the adjournment of the Democratic convention 
at Charleston a new political organization, not more than six months 
old, met in convention at Baltimore. They styled themselves the 
National Constitutional I'nion party. They nominated John Bell, 
of Tennessee, for President and Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, 
for \'ice President. They adopted for their platform the following 
words: "The constitution of the country, the union of the States, 
and the enforcement of the laws."' In the canvass that followed 
the adherents of these gentlemen were popularly known as the Bell- 
Everett party. 

Six days after the adjournment of the National (Constitutional 
Inion Convention the representatives of the Republican party assem- 
bled in large numbers in Chicago, Illinois. It was an enthusiastic 
and able body of men, fully representing the young life and advanced 
thought of the nation. The convention was organized in due time 
with (ieorge Ashmun, of Massachusetts, as permanent president. A 
committee on resolutions, composed of one delegate from each State, 
was appointed, and on the following morning it submitted to the 
convention a platform of principles in the form of seventeen resolu- 
tions, which was adopted. After affirming that the maintenance of 
the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and 
embodied in the National Constitution is essential to the preserva- 
tion of our republican institutions, congratulating the country that 
no Republican member of Congress had uttered or countenanced 
any threats of disunion, and denouncing such threats so often made 
by Democratic members without rebuke and with applause from 
their political associates as an avowal of contemplated treason, the 
resolutions made explicit declarations on the topic of slavery, now 
so largely occupying public attention. They declared that each 
State had the right of control of its own domestic concerns; "that 
the new dogma, that the constitution of its own force carries slavery 
into anv or i.II of the Territories of the United States, was a dan- 



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gerous political heresy, revolutionary and subversive of the peace of 
the country; that the normal condition of all the territory of the 
United States is that of freedom and that neither Congress nor 
territorial legislature nor any individuals have authority to give legal 
existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States; and that 
the reopening of the African slave trade, then recently commenced 
in the Southern States under the cover of the national flag, aided 
by perversions of judicial power, was a crime against humanity and 
a burning shame to our country and age." When the vote on the 
platform was announced, says an eye witness, the scene that ensued 
was of an astounding character; probably so much enthusiasm had 
never before been exhibited on any political occasion since the for- 
mation of the United States as a government. In the new^ party 
now entering upon its magnificent career were men from all the old 
parties, joined here under a strong conviction of what they deemed 
to be right. They saw their duty and dared to enter upon its 
performance without fear of the consequences. They nominated 
Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, as their candidate for the Presidency, 
and Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, as candidate for Vice President. 

'* In the four presidential tickets in the field every shade of politi- 
cal opinion was represented, but only two of the candidates embodied 
positive policies. Mr. Lincoln was in favor of prohibiting exfe?ision 
of slavery by law. Mr. Breckenridge was in favor of protecting its 
extension by law. No issue could have been more pronounced than 
the one thus presented. Mr. Douglas desired to evade it. Mr. 
Bell desired to preserve the Union by postponing the whole question. 
As the canvass grew animated and the question at issue was liberally 
discussed before the people, the conviction became general that the 
supporters of Breckenridge contemplated the destruction of the 
Government. This was not simply the belief of the Republicans, it 
was quite as general among the supporters of Douglas and the sup- 
porters of Bell. Mr. Lincoln gained steadily and derived much 
strength from the division of his opponents. Mr. Lincoln received 
four electoral votes in New Jersey, though in the aggregate popular 
vote the majority was against him. In California and Oregon he 
received pluralities. He carried every other free State and was 
elected. Breckenridge carried ever)- slave State except four : 
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voting for Douglas. The long political struggle was over. A more 
serious one was about to begin. For the first time in the history of 
the (Government the South was defeated in a presidential election 
where an issue affecting the slavery question was involved. There 
had been grave conflicts before, sometimes followed by a compro- 
mise, oftener by a victory for the South, but the election of i860 was 
the culmination of a contest which was inherent in the structure of 
the (Government; which was foreshadowed by the Louisiana ques- 
tion of 181 2 ; which became active and angry over the admission of 
Missouri: which was revived by the annexation of Texas and still 
further intlamed by the Mexican War ; which was partially allayed 
by the compromises of 1850 ; which was precipitated for final settle- 
ment by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, by the consequent 
struggle for mastery in Kansas, and by the aggressive intervention 
of the supreme court in the case of Dred Scott. These are the 
events which led directly to the political revolution of i860." 



CHAPTER V. 

FROM ELECTION TO INAUGURAL OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN SECESSION 

RAMPANT THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS WITHDRAWAL OF SOUTH- 
ERN CONGRESSMEN SECESSION OF STATES WAR BEGINS. 

" The time between the election of Mr. Lincoln and the day of 
his inaugural was filled with deplorable events. The two Northern 
Presidential candidates, Lincoln and Douglas, had absorbed almost 
the entire vote in the free States, while the two Southern Presiden- 
tial candidates, Breckenridge and Bell, had absorbed almost the 
entire vote in the slave States. It was in appearance and in fact a 
sectional contest. It was the first time in the history of the Govern- 
ment in which a President was chosen without electoral votes from 
both the free and the slave States. The time had now come when 
the Southern disunionists were to be put to the test. The events 
had happened which they had declared in advance to be the cause 
of separation. The governors and legislators of several of the slave- 
labor States took early action against the National Government, 
As might have been expected. South Carolina moved first. She did 
not wait for the actual result of the election. Governor Gist called 
the Legislature of South Carolina to meet in extraordinary session 
for the choosing on the following (election) day presidential electors. 
In his message to both Houses he recommended the calling of a 
convention of the people to accomplish secession. He recommended 
arming with the most efficient weapons of modern warfare every 
white man in the State between the ages of eighteen and forty-five 
and placing the whole military force of the Commonwealth in a 
position to be used at the shortest notice and with the greatest 
efficiency; also that 10,000 volunteers be accepted, ofiicered and 
drilled and held in readiness for action. These recommendations 
to prepare for revolt were made on the day before the election of 
Mr. Lincoln. They met with a hearty response. Infiammatory 
speeches inciting the people to revolt and to rebellion were made by 
United States senators and other public men who were present 
urging the State to withdraw from the Union, which the speakers 



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said was their undoubted right, and assuring them that other South- 
ern States would Hock to their standard. Leading conspirators in 
all parts of the South urged South Carolina on. South Carolina 
took bold and vigorous action. Joint resolutions were offered in 
both Houses providing for the calling of a State convention at an 
early day for the withdrawal of the State from the Union, and on 
the 9th of November a bill calling a convention for the purpose of 
secession passed the Senate and was concurred in by the House 
on the 1 2th. It provided for the election of delegates on the 6th 
of December to meet in convention on the 17th of that month, 
(ieorgia was the first to follow the example of South Carolina." 

THE ASSEMBLINCi OF CONGRESS. 

On Monday, the 3d of December, i860, the Thirty-sixth Con- 
gress assembled at Washington in its last session. While the 
cotton-growing States were blazing with excitement and the slave- 
labor States were surging with conflicting opinions, the free-labor 
States were looking in amazement at the rashness of those who 
were preparing to resist the power of the constitution and laws o^ 
the land. The peaceful beauty of the scenery and the day without 
strongly contrasted w^ith the turbulence of the spirits within the men 
who were assembling in the halls of legislation. "Never since the 
birth of the nation, more than seventy years before, had the people 
looked with more solemn interest upon the assembling of the 
National Legislature than at this time." "It was evident that a 
crisis in the history of the republic was present." Therefore, with 
the deepest anxiety, the people in all parts of the republic awaited 
anxiously the annual message of the President to Congress, which 
it was suj)posed would indicate with clearness and precision the line 
of policy which the Government intended to pursue. The telegraph 
carried the President's message quickly to every part of the land. 
I he people read it with eagerness and pondered its expressions with 
brows saddened with disappointment. The President argued the 
Southern side of the question. He found that the chief grievance 
of the South was in the enactments of the free States known as 
"|)ersonal liberty laws." After urging the unconditional repeal of 
these upon the North, the President said: "The Southern States, 
standing on the basis of the constitution, have a right to demand this 



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45 



act of justice from the North. Should it be refused, then the con- 
stitution, to which all the States are parties, will have been willfully 
violated by one portion of them in a provision essential to the 
domestic security and happiness of the remainder. In that event 
the injured States, after having used all peaceful and constitutional 
means to obtain redress, would be justified in revolutionary resist- 
ance to the (Government of the Union." 

The South now had the argument of a Northern president in 
justification of ''revolutionary resistance." By a large class the 
right of secession was abandoned and the right of revolution sub- 
stituted. The evolutions of the President's mind led to the conclu- 
sion that "the power to destroy was in the State, the power to 
preserve was not in the nation." The President, however, reminded 
the Southern leaders that in the whole history of the Federal Govern- 
ment " no single act had ever passed Congress, unless the Missouri 
Compromise be an exception, impairing in the slightest degree the 
rights of the South to their property and slaves." The Missouri 
Compromise had been repealed, so that the entire body of national 
statutes from the origin of the Government to that hour was, accord- 
ing to President Buchanan, guiltless of transgression against the 
rights of slaveholders. Coming from such a source this admission 
w^as of great historic value. The message of President Buchanan, 
in many respects so inconsistent and so indecisive, alarmed the 
people. It pleased nobody North or South. Jefferson Davis, sena- 
tor from Mississippi, afterwards President of the Confederate States, 
said that "it had all the characteristics of a diplomatic paper, for 
diplomacy is said to abhor certainty as nature abhors a vacuum, 
and it is not within the power of man to reach any fixed conclusion 
from that message." Senator Hale, of New Hampshire, said that 
if he understood the message on the subject of secession it was this: 
" South Carolina has just cause for seceding from the Union." 
The second is, "That she has no right to secede." The third is, 
"We have no right to prevent her from seceding." 

The people saw great dangers, but could not comprehend the 
fearful proportions of them. They watched with great eagerness 
the rising storm of rebellion in the slave-labor States, and heard 
with alarm its tempestuous voices in the halls of Congress. They 
remembered in the days of their past history of a magistrate who 



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had courage to check such an uprising by a menace, and would have 
crushed it by force of arms had it been necessary. They wished 
for a Jackson now. In the contrast between Jackson and Buchanan, 
they saw cause for gloomy apprehensions. Patriotic men from all 
parts of the Union wrote earnest letters asking their representatives 
in Congress to be firm yet conciliatory. Pious and devoted clergy- 
men of every religious denomination exhorted their people to be 
firm in faith, careful in conduct, patient in hope and trustful in God. 
October 30, i860, the venerable Winfield Scott, general in chief of 
the armies of the republic, perceiving danger in the gathering storm, 
gave words of warning to the President and secretary of war. He 
predicted that there was danger of early acts of rashness, preliminary 
to secession, namely, the seizure of some of the Southern forts which 
he named. He advised that they be so garrisoned as to make any 
attempt to take them ridiculous. The veteran General Wool, then 
living, wrote to General Cass, Buchanan's secretary of state, offer- 
ing his services for the preservation of the Union. This patriotic 
soldier urged upon the Government the absolute necessity of sending 
reinforcements to the forts in Charleston Harbor. He insisted that 
the Union could then be preserved by prompt, firm, energetic action 
on the part of the President; that no peaceable secession was pos- 
sible and not even to be thought of. Save the country, save the 
prosperous South from pestilence, famine and desolation, urged this 
patriotic old soldier. The appeals of the two leading generals were 
wasted words. The President was filled with fear. Floyd, the 
secretary of war, was a conspirator plotting treason. Buchanan's 
cabinet was filled with traitors. 

The most alarming feature of the situation to reflecting men in 
the North was that, so far as knoM'n, all the members of Mr, 
Buchanan's cabinet approved the destructive doctrines of the mes- 
sage. General Cass, secretary of state, was the first among the 
cabinet to perceive that, although himself a man of patriotic devo- 
tion, if the course indicated by Mr. Buchanan should be followed, 
the Government must be destroyed without striking one blow of 
resistance or uttering one word of protest. When it became known 
that the President would neither insist on the collection of a national 
revenue or upon the strengthening of the United States forts. 
General Cass concluded that justice to his own reputation required 



REORGANIZATION OF THE CAI'.INET. 47 

his separation from the administration. He resigned nine days 
after Mr. Buchanan had sent his fatal message to Congress. He 
was succeeded by Judge Black, who had from the beginning of the 
administration been Mr. Buchanan's chief adviser. Although a 
Democrat, a believer in the principles of Democracy, he was a man 
of sterling character and sound judgment, and loyal to his country. 
Now, loaded with responsibility, he soon perceived that, in encour- 
aging the doctrine of secession and its attendant heresies, he was 
playing with fire. This light dawned on Judge Black suddenly and 
irresistibly. He realized that, if such a man as General Cass had 
retired from the cabinet to preserve his record of loyalty, he was 
himself confronted by a grave issue affecting his own loyalty. He 
saw at a glance that the public opinion in the great Northwest and 
in his own State of Pennsylvania would not sustain him. Judge 
Black entered upon his duties as secretary c f state upon the very 
day on which the disunion convention of South Carolina assembled. 
From the moment of the passing of South Carolina's ordinance of 
secession, his position towards the Southern leaders was radically 
changed. They were to him no longer fellow Democrats. They 
were the foes of the Union he loved ; conspirators against the Govern- 
ment to which he had sworn loyalty. His influence upon the Presi- 
dent proved a power of strength for the safety of the nation. Holt 
and Stanton were now his associates in the cabinet. Jefferson 
Davis, Mr. Toombs, Mr. Benjamin and Mr. Slidell, who had been 
Mr. Buchanan's intimate and confidential advisers, and who had led 
him to the brink of ruin, found themselves suddenly supplanted and 
a new power installed at the White House. Foiled, no longer able 
to use the national administration as an instrumentality to destroy 
the national life, the secession leaders in Congress turned upon the 
President with angry reproaches. The stand taken by Judge Black 
and his associates caused the reorganization of the cabinet as a 
matter of necessity. The members who were plotting treason 
resigned and were replaced by loyal men. The names of Joseph 
Holt, Horatio King and Gen. John A. Dix will not soon be forgotten 
by any loyal soldier who can remember the intense agitation during 
the last days of December, i860. The reconstructed cabinet was 
one of loyalty and power for the remaining two months of Mr. 
Buchanan's administration. The destinies of the country were in 



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the keeping of these constitutional advisers. There was everywhere 
the most earnest desire to avert conflict and an unwillingness to 
recognize the possibility of war. The majority of the Republican 
party in Congress was not advocating a more decided or aggressive 
course with the South than the cabinet with Judge Black as its 
head was pursuing. The change of position on the part of the 
President was announced in a special message to Congress on the 
8th of January, 1861. The tone was so different from his message 
of December that it could not be recognized as coming from the 
same man. In this message he announced that he had no alterna- 
tive but "to collect the public revenues, and to protect the public 
property." That his province as public executive was "to execute 
not to make laws." He threw upon Congress the duty of enlarging 
their provisions to meet exigencies as they may occur. He declared 
the right to use military force against those who assailed the prop- 
erty of the Federal Government. The North, with unaffected satis- 
faction, the South, with unconcealed indignation, realized that the 
i'resident had entirely escaped from the influences which dictated 
his first message. 

The time remaining of the last session of the Thirty-sixth Con- 
gress seems to have been given over to withdrawals of Southern 
representatives and senators and to attempts at conciliation. The 
attitude now taken by many of the Republican members who had 
heretofore been pronounced in their anti-slavery principles seemed 
to indicate an abandonment of the principles they had professed. 
They seemed willing to suffer humiliation if in some way they might 
appease the anger of the South. The venerable Charles Francis 
Adams proposed that the constitution of the United States be so 
amended that no subsequent amendment thereto "having for its 
object any interference with slavery shall originate with any State that 
does not recognize that relation within its own limits, or shall be 
valid without the assent of every one of the States composing the 
Inion." No Southern man during the long agitation of the slavery 
(|uestion, extending from 1820 to i860, had ever submitted so 
extreme a proposition as that of Mr. Adams. Extreme as this prop- 
osition appeared, it was not more so than other propositions sug- 
gested or offered by other anti-slavery members. Such propositions 
as tiiesc had the precise effect which under braver moments their 



THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 49 

authors would have anticipated ; they humiliated the North without 
appeasing or satisfying the South. 

In this passing allusion to the work of the Thirty-sixth Con- 
gress, great credit must be given to Senator Stephen A. Douglas, 
late Democratic candidate for President. He became a tower of 
strength to the Union, and to the close of his life he was a most 
aggressive champion and earnest supporter of the incoming admin- 
istration of Mr. Lincoln. The last days of the Thirty-sixth Congress 
were days of triumph for Mr. Douglas. He was justified in the 
boast that after all the bitter agitation following the Kansas-Nebraska 
bill, the Republicans had at last adopted its principles and even 
gone far beyond it in their attemps at conciliation. Humiliating as 
the action of anti-slavery members of Congress might seem in retro- 
spect, it is but just for us to remember that they went no farther 
than was demanded by the popular sentiment of the extreme anti- 
slavery men in the North. 

It is to the credit of this Congress, however, that the pas- 
sage of what was known as the Morrill Tariff Measure accomplished 
a most important change in the revenue laws, a change equivalent 
to revolution in the economic and financial system of the Govern- 
ment. It was the beginning of a series of enactments which deeply 
affected the financial ability of the Government to endure the heavy 
expenditure entailed by the war which immediately followed. 

THE INAU(;URATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

During the session of Congress described in the preceding 
pages startling events had been occurring throughout the South. 
While Congress was calm, the lobbies were resonant with, the voices 
of excited men. Everywhere upon the avenues, at the hotels, at 
restaurants, and wherever men congregate together, animated and 
even angry discussions were heard, accompanied with violent 
gestures and frequent personal altercations. Rumors were rife 
and prophecies concerning the future prevalent. When Northern 
courage was at its lowest ebb and Southern defiance at its greatest 
height, Mr. Lincoln began his journey from his home to Washington 
to assume his duties as Chief Executive of a distracted and disor- 
ganized republic. Grave fears were expressed that he did not 
comprehend the peril of the journey ; that the threats of the conspir- 
ators that they would take possession of the electoral votes and not 



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allow them to he counted, that they would make a violent attempt 
to seize the archives of the Government and to prevent the inaugu- 
ration of Mr. Lincoln, would be carried out. The conspirators were 
so confident of the success of their schemes that one of the leading 
Southern senators then in Congress said: "Mr. Lincoln will not 
dare to come to Washington after the expiration of the term of Mr. 
lUichanan. The city will be seized and occupied as the capital of 
the Southern Confederacy and Mr. Lincoln will be compelled to take 
his oath of office in Philadelphia or New York." But Judge Black. 
former attorney-general, was now secretary of state. His office had 
been filled by Edwin M. Stanton, afterwards secretary of war under 
President Lincoln. John A. Dix, a stanch patriot of New^ York, 
had succeeded Thomas, of Maryland, as secretary of the treasury. 
When at the close of December, i860, Joseph Holt succeeded the 
traitorous Floyd as secretary of war, no troops w^ere stationed at 
Washington or its vicinity. Acting under the advice of General 
Scott and with the approval of President Buchanan, Secretary Holt 
took precautions for the safety of the national capital. The quar- 
tering of troops within the national capital gave offense to the 
Southern men who still remained in Congress. They urged that 
such an act was impolitic and offensive, and if permitted it would 
be destructive of civil liberty and, therefore, the troops should be 
removed. It was ludicrous to witness the great alarm taken by the 
Southern conspirators at the appearance of a few troops in Wash- 
ington while they were so actively engaged in seizing the forts and 
other property of the Government. Secretary Holt stated to the 
President in very plain language that "a revolution had been in 
progress for the preceding three months in several of the Southern 
States ; that its history was one of surprises, treacheries and ruthless 
spoliations; that forts had been captured and garrisoned and hostile 
Hags unfurled from the ramparts; that arsenals, arms, mints and 
treasures had been seized ; that a conspiracy existed for the armed 
occupation of Washington as a part of the revolutionary programme." 
And that he could not fail to remember that "if the early admoni- 
tions m regard to the designs of lawless men in Charleston Harbor 
iiad been acted on, and adequate reinforcements sent there before 
the revolution began, the disastrous political complications which 
ensued might not have occurred." 



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''During January, 1861, the disloyal politicians in six of the 
Southern States of the Union, following the example of South Caro- 
lina, passed ordinances of secession and appointed delegates to a 
general convention for the purpose of forming a Southern Confed- 
eracy. These ordinances were passed in the following order : In 
Mississippi on the 9th of January, in Florida on the loth, in Ala- 
bama on the iith, in Georgia on the iQth, in Louisiana on the 26th, 
and in Texas on the ist of February. 'At the same time large 
numbers of minutemen in Virginia under the control of Henry A. 
Wise, and others in Maryland under leaders unknown to the public, 
were organized and drilled for the special purpose of seizing the 
city of Washington and the Government buildings and the archives 
there.' During the same time conspirators acting under authority 
assumed by the free and sovereign States in the South were seizing 
the property of the United States Government situated within their 
borders. They had seized the forts and arsenals containing vast 
amount of cannon, of most approved kinds of small arms, military 
stores and ammunition, which had been distributed and stored in 
these forts and arsenals in the Southern States by the treacherous 
secretary of war, Mr. Floyd. They had also seized the mint at 
New Orleans with its vast treasures." 

A large portion of the regular army officers, graduates from 
West Point, educated at the expense of the Government, had come 
from the South. As might have been expected, these were in 
command of the various military stations throughout these States. 
They had joined the conspirators, and, so far as possible, had 
persuaded their soldiers to join the seditious movements of their 
respective States. There were notable exceptions. The heroic 
Major Anderson had moved his small garrison into Fort Sumter, 
the strongest of the forts in Charleston Harbor, and, although 
abandoned by his Government, heroically stood his ground until 
hope was hopeless. Lieutenant Slemmer, then in command of the 
forts in Pensacola Harbor, Florida, bravely took his post in Fort 
Pickens, and sustained himself with his little band until the last 
extremity. 

During all this time the arch conspirators, who had represented 
their States in the Senate and lower House of the United States 
Congress, retained their seats with an audacity as wicked as their 



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designs While they had managed to accomplish the secession of 
their States they held their seats, preventing hostile legislation, coun- 
seling the Executive, perfecting plans and plotting treason. They 
had resorted to every means, fair and unfair, misleading and decep- 
tive, inriaming the Southern mind and firing the Southern heart. 

'on the 22d of February Mr. Lincoln, President-elect, was in 
Philadelphia, and there unfurled a beautiful iiag over the cradle of 
liberty. He' visited Harrisburg, and acting under advice of chiefs 
of the Tnited States secret service and General Scott, who had 
advised him of a plot for his assasination in Baltimore, he arrived 
at Willards Hotel, in Washington, in advance of the appointed 
time. Loyal hearts in Washington and the free States were at once 
tilled with joy and exultation. Foiled malice, disappointment and 
chagrin met the conspirators in Washington, and throughout the 
South, sullen and silent, a capital plan in their mad scheme had 
been frustrated. They had hoped and tried for the defection of 
(;eneral Scott, a Virginian by birth, but they found him standing 
firm as a rock in the midst of the surges of secession, and he had 
tilled the national capital with so many loyal troops that its security 
against any possible act of the conspirators, secret or open, was 
complete. 

*• Leaving President-elect Lincoln surrounded by his friends in 
Washington, let us look for a moment at the actual President of 
the Tnited States, James Buchanan, who now seemed as eager as 
were the people for the close of his official career. W^e have seen 
him, from the opening of the session of Congress until the disruption 
of his cabinet at the close of December, in seeming harmony with 
the wishes of the conspirators. We have seen him after that sur- 
rounded by less malign influences and prevented by loyal men in 
his cabinet from allowing his fears or his inclinations to do the 
republic serious harm, and in his P'ast Day message sent to Con- 
gress he spoke some brief words, saying it was his right and his 
duty to use military force defensibly against those who resist the 
orticers and those who assail the property of the Federal Govern- 
ment. Vet he persistently refused to follow these brief words by 
corresponding action. He cast the responsibility of meeting the 
peril upon Congress, suggesting to it the propriety of yielding to the 
demands of the Southern oligarchy. While the country was ringing 



THE SITUATION IN RETROSPECT. 53 

with plaudits for Major Anderson, because of his gallant and useful 
conduct at Fort Sumter, Lieutenant General Scott asked the Presi- 
dent to act as the interpreter of the wish of millions and grant this 
brave officer promotion. He replied : ' I leave that for my suc- 
cessor.' And in all things, with a seeming desire to maintain his 
inoffensive position toward the conspirators, he pursued the timorous 
policy which greatly embarrassed his loyal counselors and heroic 
soldiers, and paralyzed their efforts to meet the emergency. He 
disappointed the North and maddened the South." 

Looking at the situation in retrospect from the date of this 
writing, and taking into account the wiser judgment of men of both 
sections, the writer believes it has been conceded that, had the 
presidential chair been occupied by a man of the type of Jackson 
or of Grant, there would have been no secession, no Confederate 
States of America and no Civil War. The 4th of March, 1861, will 
ever be a memorable day in American history. The election had 
proclaimed in soft whispers of the ballot an unchangeable decree of 
freedom. The inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, the sixteenth president 
of ihe United States, was an immense relief to the country. There 
had been an undefined dread throughout the Northern States that 
Mr. Lincoln would in some way, by some act of treachery, be 
deprived of the presidency and instead a reign of anarchy be inaug- 
urated, but under the wise direction of General Scott small bodies 
of troops had been brought into the city and so scattered that their 
presence was scarcely perceptible. The conspirators, however, 
were so impressed with the belief, heightened by imagination, that a 
vast concealed army was present in the city that they abandoned 
the scheme of seizing Washington, preventing the inauguration of 
Mr. Lincoln, and placing one of their number in the executive chair. 
Mr. Breckenridge, the Vice President, had performed his official 
duty with scrupulous fidelity, and as Vice President of the United 
States he had declared Mr. Lincoln to be lawfully and constitution- 
ally elected President of the United States. 

" Anarchy and disorder in the North at that time would have 
proved very advantageous to the leaders of secession. The fact, 
therefore, that Mr. Lincoln was in possession of the presidential 
office and quietly living at the Executive Mansion, with the Senate 
of the United States in session, with a quorum present, ready to act 



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upon his nominations, imparted a new confidence and opened a new 
prospect, hopeful indeed to the friends of the Union. Most of the 
representatives and senators from the Southern States had taken 
their adieus from Congress. The insulting insolence, supercilious 
contempt and audacious designs of these conspirators, as expressed 
in some of their farewell speeches, forms ludicrous reading at the 
present time, when considered in connection with the part borne by 
some of them in the war which followed. The most eloquent of 
their boasters did not appear to great advantage in the serious con- 
flict which so devastated, distressed and afflicted the Southern 
people. 

" When President Lincoln entered upon his official duties, seven 
of the Southern States had passed ordinances of secession. The 
(ieneral Government had been organized and was in active opera- 
tion at Montgomery, Alabama. Nearly all the public property in 
these States had been seized by insurgents. The United States flag 
was Hying nowhere except upon Fort Sumter, Fort Pickens and a 
few other points which the insurgents had not seized. The navy 
had been scattered to distant seas by a disloyal secretary of the 
navy, acting with the conspirators, and was unavailable for the pres- 
ent emergency. The border slave States of Virginia, Tennessee, 
Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland were ablaze with excitement and 
violent secession agitators were straining every resource to drag 
them into their revolutionary schemes. Fortress Monroe in Virginia 
was seriously threatened, while the insurgents had already seized 
the navy yard at Norfolk. Throughout the North and West there 
were many extreme Democrats, followers of Buchanan and of South- 
ern leaders, who appeared to believe in the righteousness of the 
Southern demands and the course they were pursuing. They vehe- 
mently denied the right of the United States Government to strike 
a blow in defense of its own life." While Virginia was at the height 
of its excitement a peace conference with commissioners from eleven 
of the slave States and fourteen of the free-labor States assembled 
in Willards Hall in Washington. John Tyler, an ex-President of 
the I nited States, presided. Their deliberations were extensive, 
earnest and almost heated, but always dignified and diplomatic. 
Many propositions were put forth only to be rejected, while one 
known to the public as the Crittenden Resolution was the only one 



FORMATION OF A S(3UTHERN CONFEDERACY. 55 

which received the approval of the commissioners. This was 
rejected bo^h by Congress, by the conspirators at Richmond and 
elsewhere throughout the Confederacy. It was evident that the 
leaders of the Southern revolt had determined to accept of no com- 
promise, and that no concessions, however great, would either satisfy 
or appease them. Leading men of the North, holding strong anti- 
slavery opinions, seemed willing to make any concessions, reason- 
able or unreasonable, if thereby the disruption of the Union and 
the horrors of a civil war might be averted. It would be unfair and 
a perversion of facts to state that the people of the South were by 
any means unanimous in desiring a disruption of the Union or the 
formation of a Southern Confederacy. They were swept along into 
the vortex of the destructive confiict by the persistent urging and 
agitation of a band of conspirators seeking their own advancement, 
regardless of the welfare and with no scruples concerning the rights 
of the people. Some of them insisted that to hold the Confederacy 
together blood must be sprinkled in the faces of the people ; that a 
blow must be struck. When the Government had decided to furnish 
provisions to Major Anderson and his little band in Fort Sumter, 
their opportunity came. They struck the blow. They made the 
assault upon a Government fort. They prevented the provisioning 
and reinforcement of Major Anderson and compelled the hauling 
down of the national flag over one of its strongest fortresses. The 
hilarious excitement and exultation in the South was not more 
intense than the spirit of determination this act of war produced in 
the North. Throughout the free-labor States all partisan lines were 
obliterated, all political differences were pushed aside, and a whole 
people suddenly awoke to a realizing sense of the peril of the Gov- 
ernment. Concessions were no longer in order. War, stern, con- 
tinuous, and relentless war, had begun. 



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THE ARBITRAMENT OF ARMS. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

UPRISING OF THE LOYAL NORTH WILD CONFIDENCE IN THE SOUTH 

PROGRESS (3F EVENTS DURING FIRST YEAR OF WAR MILI- 
TARY ORGANIZATION THE NAVY AND IIS CONDIITON. 

The repossession of all property of the United States Govern- 
ment in every State of the Union was the one unalterable purpose 
in every loyal heart. The announcement of the attack upon Fort 
Sumter was simultaneous with the call from President Lincoln for 
75,000 men, to be used for the preservation of the Government and 
the restoring of Government authority in all places where it had 
been trampled under foot. Many times the number of men called 
for were offered. The loyal governors of the free-labor States were 
at that time a remarkable line of patriots. They at once informed 
the President of the loyal and unwavering support of their States, 
and pledged the resources of the same in men and money to an unlim- 
ited extent. If for a few hours the chivalry of the South had been 
happy in its exultation over the fallen flag at Sumter, consternation 
appeared in the faces of thoughtful men when they witnessed the 
grim determination of the North. If they had been beguiled by 
their leaders into a belief that the North would not resist, that 
courage and determination belonged only to the chivalry of the 
South, they were to be undeceived. If their boasters in Congress 
had defiantly flaunted in the face of Northern senators the threat 
that to maintain the Union would cost the North a million lives and 
a hundred millions of dollars, they had forgotten to mention in their 
prophecies that the attempt to destroy this Union would cost the 
South a million lives and all their dollars, with a suffering untold 
and untenable, added also to the fearful calamity imposed upon an 
innocent people by scheming traitors. 

Just previous to the attack upon Fort Sumter by the Confederate 
forces, President Lincoln had determined to send supplies to Major 
Anderson and his loyal troops. He wisely saw if he failed to do 
this it would give the South a degree of courage and the North a 
corresponding degree of despondency. It would discourage the 



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friends of the Union at home, embolden its adversaries, and go ||j 
far to insure to the latter a recognition abroad; in fact, it would be 
our national destruction consummated. The President communi- 
cated his determination to relieve Major Anderson at about the 
same time that Secretary Seward transmitted to Jefferson Davis his 
refusal to receive commissioners from the so-called Confederate 
States. These were the events which decided the Confederate 
secretary of war to order the firing of the shotted guns aimed by trea- 
son at Anderson and his little band. 

The fleet that was bringing relief to Sumter was too late, they 
arrived only in season to witness the lowering of the fiag. Those 
who had urged Mr. Davis to strike a blow and "to sprinkle blood 
in the faces of the people," as a means of consolidating Southern 
opinion, were successful. The inhabitants of the States of the Con- 
federacy were wild with success. They had taken from the National 
Ciovernment its strongest fortress on the South Atlantic coast. They 
had become suddenly awakened to a sense of power. They were 
wild with confidence in their ability to destroy the United States 
(Government and to establish their own. They had not, however, 
anticipated the effect the blow^ would have on the Northern people. 
Until the assault on Sumter they had reasons for believing that Mr. 
Lincoln's administration was weak. They pinned their faith to the 
promises of Northern Democrats, their so-called allies, who had given 
assurance that any troops coming from the North to the rescue of the 
Union must march over their prostrate bodies. They believed half the 
population of the North had accepted Buchanan's creed ; that there 
was no power in the constitution to coerce a sovereign State. Never 
was the delusion of a people so quickly and so completely dispelled. 
The effect of the assault on Sumter and the lowering of the national 
tiag to the forces of the Confederacy acted upon Northern sentiment 
and opinions as a consolidated inspiration. It dissipated all differ- 
ences and brought the whole people to an instant and unanimous 
determination to avenge the insult and to establish the authority of 
the Union. 

Where doubt and fear had reigned now there was deter- 
mination, courage, and the spirit of boundless sacrifice. The 
President's call for troops was issued specifically to every State, 
except the seven already in revolt. The proclamation was responded 



RESULT OF THE ATTACK ON FORT SUMTER. 6 1 

to in every loyal State with an unparalleled outburst of enthusiasm. 
On the very day of its issue, hundreds of public meetings were held 
in every State from Maine to the Western frontier. Everybody sus- 
pended work and the whole people were aroused to patriotic ardor, 
to subdue the rebellion and restore the Union whatever might be 
the cost in treasure and life. By thousands of responses the Presi- 
dent was made to feel that day had dawned, that out of the gloom 
and darkness light had broken forth. He was made to feel that 
however severe the open conflict might be it was far preferable to 
the sense of gloom, uncertainty and even despondency, into which 
the nation had been cast during the few weeks of his official work. 
He was brought to feel that anything was better than the humiliation 
through which the Government had been groping. There is nowhere 
recorded in history any such manifestations of public enthusiasm as 
was seen in the free States of the Union immediately following the 
attack on Sumter. While this feeling was too deep to brook any 
resistance or opposition, it was tempered with wise discretion. 
Suspected and outspoken opponents were promptly called upon and 
made to speak out for the Union. Partisan papers publishing dis- 
loyal sentiments were compelled to fling out the American flag or 
have their entire outfit thrown out of the windows ; yet no violence 
occurred worth mentioning at this late day. 

It is due to the Democracy of the North to say that, however 
strongly they had opposed the election of Mr. Lincoln, they were 
loyal patriots now, and responded with noble fidelity to the calls to 
stand by the Union. Their great leader. Senator Douglas, set them 
a most worthy example by promptly visiting the President and 
thereafter cooperating with him in the struggle for the life of the 
nation. From the hour of actual danger Mr. Douglas had spoken 
no partisan word, had known no partisan division, and had labored 
arduously for the saving of the Government. Nearly a million and 
a half of men believed in his leadership and they followed him 
with implicit trust into the plain path of their duty as citizens. 
Perhaps no words spoken in those stirring times inspired more 
loyalty than his memorable reply to words of welcome accorded 
him on his return to his own State by the Republican Legislature of 
Illinois. During the session of Congress just closed he had been 
a tower of strength to the Government. He did not live to return. 



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His death created a profound impression in the country and the 
administration lost one of its surest props. 

The President's call for troops created a mighty revulsion in 
the minds of many of the people of the border slave States. It was 
a test of their loyalty. The convulsions of popular opinion in those 
States brought to the front many strong characters not heretofore 
known to th'e general public. We shall allude to the results of the 
agitation in those States in a later chapter. 

THE I'ROC.RESS OE EVENTS DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR. 

The indignation, wrath and determination of ever so great a 
Iliads of men does not constitute a well-organized army of trained 
infantry, artillery, and cavalry. One regiment of a thousand green 
recruits does not make a formidable army any more than "one swal- 
low makes a summer." Enthusiastic and determined as was the 
first popular uprising of the North, the South had manifestly the 
advantage at the first in the appeal to arms. They had for thirty 
years been preparing for this war. Particularly during the last ten 
years they had been making active and material preparations. 
Nearly all the arms, modern heavy guns and most approved patterns 
of small arms, with the ammunition and equipments for using the 
same, had been transferred to Southern arsenals and forts. All 
these were now in their possession, while the North was almost 
without either. Moreover, since the first uprising in South Carolina, 
the whole South had been converted into a military camp for organ- 
izing, drilling and preparing every available man for military service. 
I'or many years much the largest number of offtcers educated at 
West Point had come from the South, and Southern graduates from 
that institution had filled most of the prominent places in the United 
Slates Army. They had also an advantage in the fact that the use 
of saddle horses was common and prevalent everywhere throughout 
the South. They, therefore, had many good riders and had for 
many years been breeding an excellent class of saddle horses. The 
North had bred horses for the light vehicle, the stagecoach and the 
heavy team. We shall see, however, how all these differences were 
overcome by the self-reliance, the inventive spirit and the ability of 
the men of tiie free-labor States to adapt themselves to circumstances 
and to overcome obstacles. 



THE PROflRESS OF EVENTS. ' 63 

Throughout the North companies were recruited in towns and 
in cities. They came together from the farms, from the workshops, 
from the mills, from the lumber camps, from the drives on the rivers, 
from the colleges, schools and stores. Every kind of ability and 
disability was represented in nearly every company. Usually men 
having some political influence became enlisting officers. These 
received commissions varying in grade, generally according to the 
number of recruits they brought in and the size of their "pull" 
with local politicians. Little regard was had to their ability or 
fitness, either to command, discipline, or manage troops. 

The infantry regiment of the United States at that time was 
composed of ten companies. Each company had from seventy-two 
to one hundred enlisted men ; one captain, one first lieutenant, 
one second lieutenant, five sergeants, one of whom was first or 
orderly sergeant, and eight corporals. These officers commanded 
the company in the order of their grades. The orderly or first 
sergeant acted as clerk to the captain, ususally had charge of 
all details concerning the company, and according to his ability 
determined largely the character and well-being of the com- 
pany. The field officers consisted of colonel, lieutenant colonel, 
major, with a staff composed of quartermaster, adjutant, surgeon 
and two assistant surgeons and chaplain. The field officers com- 
manded or assisted in accordance with their respective rank. The 
quartermaster was charged with the furnishing of tents, clothing, 
camp and garrison equipage, transportation, fuel and all other sup- 
plies. The adjutant acted as clerk to the commanding officer, made 
all details, kept all records, and communicated all official orders of 
the colonel or commanding officer of the regiment to commanders 
of the companies. All official communications from command- 
ing officers of companies were addressed to the adjutant. The 
surgeon had charge of the regimental hospitals, medical supplies, 
had general charge of the health and sanitary conditions of the 
regiment. His two assistants and a hospital steward and all nurses 
detailed for his service received their orders through him. The 
quartermaster was assisted by a quartermaster sergeant; also under 
his charge was a commissary sergeant, whose business it was to 
distribute rations to the different companies of the regiment. The 
adjutant was assisted by a -non-commissioned officer known as 
sergeant major. 



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When it is remembered that most of these officers were origi- 
V hardiv better fitted for their duties than many of the men 
in the ranks, it will seem plain that such a regiment, though com- 
posed of excellent material, would not be a competent organization 
or fitted for hard service for many months. Some of the early 
colonels, lieutenant colonels, and indeed officers of all grades, were 
wholly unfit for military service as officers. Their places were better 
filled later by younger men who fitted themselves and earned their 
commissions in service to their country. The development, there- 
fore, of a fighting army had to be slow. All veterans of long service 
will readily agree that one regiment of a thousand men, commanded 
and handled by the young but veteran officers of a later day, was 
fully etiual on a hard-fought battlefield to five such regiments as we 
have just described, although the material was similar in each. 
( )fiicers and men had to learn the art of living in the field without 
tents, with the smallest possible encumbrances, and how to make 
themselves comfortable and keep strong without an extensive wardrobe 
or an elaborate commissariat. If many of the officers of regimental 
organizations of the early days of the war were unfit for their places, 
they were no more so than were many of the officers appointed to 
higher commands. Brigadiers and major generals received their 
appointments because of some political pull or influence which they 
themselves or some personal friend could exercise in their behalf. 
The same faulty system of appointments greatly injured the efficiency 
of the staff as well as the general. The success of a general often 
depends upon the skill and ability of his staff officers. A blunder- 
ing, unskilled, incompetent aid can lose the best-planned battle. 
.\n inefficient brigade commander can destroy the prowess of a good 
division. The soldierly character of a division commander some- 
times makes or unmakes the reputation of an army corps. The 
writer has long been of the opinion that it would have been a vast 
gain to the efficiency of the early volunteer army had the whole 
regular army organization been broken up, and all the graduates of 
West Point distributed to their respective States to command of 
regiments and batteries. The noble work done, however, by volun- 
teer officers in the latter part of the war was ample evidence that 
the education which they got for themselves as military men was as 
effective for service as that which their comrades of the regular 



THE DEVELOP.MENT OF AN ARMY. 65 

establishment had received in the schools. The loyalty, patriotism 
and courage of both proved to be above reproach. It will now be 
remembered how many harmful results came to the army because 
of the insistence of public opinion, and the severe criticism heaped 
upon military men by editors and their journals. 

We shall have occasion to speak of this in following the course 
of events. 

It should be noted here that the South had a distinct advan- 
tage in the beginning of the war, from the fact that the graduates 
of West Point Military Academy belonging within their States 
were generally distributed to the commands of corps divisions, brig- 
ades and regiments. It was also true that their political generals 
and colonels made little better show^ing in their early military exploits 
than did those in the North. It will now be remembered that the 
people and even the leaders of public opinion both in the South 
and in the North failed to comprehend the magnitude of the struggle 
upon which they were entering. Many in the North believed that 
with a determined appearance and show^ of force on the part of the 
National Government the South would recede, and that the seceded 
States would be as quickly subdued as was the nullification attempt 
in South Carolina at an earlier day. 

The first 75,000 men were enlisted for three months. Their 
gathering and departure seemed more an occasion of hilarity than 
an undertaking of grave responsibility. The political brigadiers 
and colonels, or at least some of them, seemed more engrossed 
with the beauty of their new uniforms than they were with their 
duties. They seemed to be more anxious to make a gorgeous dis- 
play of their fine personal appearance about the hotels and theatres 
of Washington than to fit themselves and their troops for the ardu- 
ous duties which were so soon to confront them. During the first 
year of the war, it was no uncommon thing to find a general or a 
colonel living most of the time at a hotel in Washington, while his 
command was at the front entrusted to the care of some junior ofiicer. 

The w^ell-known plan of the Confederate authorities, to seize 
the Federal capital and set up their Government of the Confederate 
States in Washington, had created the necessity of concentrating the 
early eastern army in and about the District of Columbia. From the 
dome of the capitol the Confederate flag could be seen flying over 



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the Confederate works on the Virginia side. The hostility of the city 
of Dilliinore, north of Washington, invited the stealthy approach 
from the north by a Confederate force. It was current belief at one 
time that the most dangerous attack upon the defenses of Washington 
.ni.ht come from that quarter. The city of Washington itself was 
properly called at that time a hotbed of secession, a nest of traitors, 
and a shelter for Confederate spies. Cooperating with traitors in 
Virginia these easily passed and repassed through and by the lines 
of pickets detailed for the most part from new regiments. They 
took information from every department in the National Government. 
An order issued by the secretary of war was almost certain to reach 
the Confederate lines as soon or sooner than it did the commanding 
officer for whom it was intended. The exact disposition and num- 
ber of troops in and about Washington was promptly communicated 
to the commanding officers of the Confederate forces near by. The 
hostile attitude of the people living in the District of Columbia and 
on the opposite shores of Virginia will be brought out more partic- 
ularly in our chapter upon the Daughter of the Regiment. 

I'or an understanding of what is to follow, it is sufficient to say 
here, that as much of our available force during the first year of 
the war was set apart for the protection of the property of those 
who were seeking the destruction of the Government as was left 
for use against the enemy in the Confederate lines. The general 
in command seemed to be exceedingly anxious lest the troops under 
his command should hurt the feelings of the people in the Confed- 
eracy, (ireat as was the failure to comprehend the situation on the 
part of the North, Southern opinion underestimated their under- 
taking no less. Their leaders had constantly proclaimed that the 
North would not fight; that one chivalrous Southerner could whip 
WvQ Northerners, and if he were an exceedingly valiant cavalier 
he could subdue ten or more. It had been instilled into Southern 
opinion that even if a Northern army could be gathered it could 
not even succeed in reaching Washington, for Northern Demo- 
cratic orators had been proclaiming before Southern audiences 
that any Northern army, attempting to invade the territory of their 
Southern brethren, "must pass over their prostrate bodies." It 
appears ludicrous at this writing to remember in how many cases 
the movement of Northern patriots caused the absence of these 
bodies. They went to Canada. They suddenly conceived the 



WAITINC; FOR THE ARMY TO MOVE. 67 

opinion that the British possessions was a safe retreat. Had the 
national administration fully comprehended the magnitude of 
the struggle, a call for 75,000 militia would not have come alone. 
The limit of time for which this body of troops could be used 
according to law was three months. It would require a much longer 
time than this to organize the beginnings of a fairly efficient army. 
An accompanying call should rather have been made for 500,000 
three years' men. 

We have, on a preceding page, called attention to the fact that 
all the arms, ordnance stores and munitions of war, of modern char- 
acter and immediately available, had been transferred to the arsenals 
and forts of the South, so that the Government was without these 
resources at the beginning. Everything had to be created. Men 
could be gathered in multitudes. Soldiers without arms and ammu- 
nition can build fortifications, breastworks, ditches, and abatis. 
Under the direction of skillful engineers they can build bombproofs, 
gun beds, and construct formidable-looking fortifications. They 
can mount cannon as they arrive, but all these preparations are as 
senseless clay either for defense or offensive military operations 
until they are put in the hands of trained soldiers, well commanded. 
So we must wait for arms, for uniforms, for blankets, for tents, for 
the equipments of soldiers. 

We were compelled to wait for somebody to get ready to make 
these things, for there were no manufacturers for this exclusive 
purpose at the commencement of hostilities. Sail lofts were turned 
to tent factories. Boot manufacturers transformed their plants into 
army brogan factories. Clothing manufacturers learned to make 
uniforms. Harness makers became makers of soldiers' equipments. 
Blacksmiths forged horseshoes for the army. Wheelwrights and 
carriage manufacturers turned to making army wagons, artillery cais- 
sons and ambulances. Large foundries became gun makers. It is 
not surprising that an impatient people stirred up by shouting poli- 
ticians should have cried, "Why don't the army move?" They 
could not comprehend the time required to transform a people, born 
and reared to the arts of peace, into a military and war-like nation. 

THE NAVAL SITUATION. 

It has been noted in a previous chapter, that the most effective 
naval vessels, belonging to the United States, had been sent by a 



.. ^x-^T^ r^KST VAINE HEAVY ARTIIXERY. 

. . _ V to fix distinr seas. To prevent ihe 

^pe of i«ivate«s. ^ich die Confederate Govwttmcnt had b^un 
mting up to pre e commerce of the Xordu and to prevent 

the entrance of - - - munitions of war furnished by foreign 
countries, from supplying the Confederate annics with these neces- 
^^^^^ ^ the whole Southern coast had been ordered. 

We hac ^ ^ ««^ S'^s ^^^ ^ ^^*^ "* undertaking; both 

these and the accompanying munitions had to be built and made. 
A navy does not alone consist of ships and guns, it must have sailors 
And men. The ^pyards of the Xarth immediately sprang into 
activity. Machine shops and foundries not eigaiged in making guns 
for the army were making oigines and equipments for the navy. 
Fishermen and sailors inured to the sea hurried to answer the call 
of the President for sailois and maiines. Many d the finest vessels, 
merchant ships of the Xoith. had been sozed in Southern ports. 

One of the most fatal and disastrous kisses to the Union, caused 
by hesiiancv and delay, was the destruction in part and evacuation 
of aid at Go^Mrt. near Xcwfolk, Virginia. Notwithstand- 

ing _ importance to the Union and to the Confederates, the 
late administration, in its endeav«s to avoid irritating the secession- 
had kft the wIk^ e^msed to sozure or destruc- 
iS n«ther fort nor garrisoo to cover it. It was 
invitingly weak and o&ered scroi^ temptation for a few bold men to 
seiie it The new administratioii had feuQed to exercise ocHnmon 
prudence until after it was too late. More than a month too late 
Commodore Macaulay received instructions from the secretary of 
ihr 'n aiming some of his ships, to giet ~ 

N: -fold the vessels and other properr 

ed Merrimac was ready for sea with crew ir 
~ rd by the treasonab^ - ~ 
^-oers. The wiwkmer. r 

yard who had been corrupted by disloval cheers were absent frcMn 
roll can. Macinlay became alarmed and gave instrucrdons fen- z'r r 
destructioii of the yard and vessds to prevent their faHii^ into '.':. - 
hands of the insurgents Had his bravery and perastence ht-T 
greater, the time iin PauWii^ in the Pawnee wo _ z 

have saved to : -is vahmble propoty. The Xe~ 

York, the Pennsyivaiua, and the I>o}iri[iin were nearly destfoye: 



BLOCKADE OF SOUTHERN PORTS ORDERED, 69 

The Raritan and Merrimac were partially burned. The German- 
town was burned and sunk. The useless old United States which 
had won glory was not injured. The Plymouth was scuttled as was 
also the Columbus and Delaware. The Plymouth was afterward 
raised, so was the Merrimac and converted into a powerful ironclad 
vessel. The value of the property destroyed has been estimated at 
from seven to ten millions of dollars. The value of this advantage 
to the Confederates was many times greater. The result of its loss 
upon the fate of the Union cannot be computed. The tieet thus 
destroyed would have been of immense value in the blockade of 
Confederate ports then ordered. The insurgents would have had 
no Merrimac for the destruction of another portion of our fleet in 
Hampton Roads nor for a trial of strength with a new Monitor to 
which we shall hereafter allude. The attack on Fort Sumter on the 
1 2 th and the surrender of its little garrison on the 14th occurred 
without loss of life on either side. 

THE EFFLSIOX OF BLOOD. 

President's Lincoln's proclamation calling for 75.000 troops 
came on the 15th. together with the news of the surrender of Fort 
Sumter. On the 17th Jetterson Davis replied with a proclamation 
authorizing the fitting out of privateers to attack the merchant 
ships of the United States. On Friday the 19th President Lincoln 
rejoined by proclaiming a blockade of the whole Southern coast from 
>outh Carolina to Texas inclusive, and declaring that Confederate 
privateers would be treated as pirates ; thus was war emphatically 
declared. The first actual bloodshed occurred on the 19th of April, 
the anniversary of the first bloodshed that ushered in the War of 
Independence. On that day the 6th Massachusetts, on its way to 
Washington, was fired on by a mob as it was passing through Balti- 
more and several men were killed. The Confederates lost no time 
in seizing the important post and arsenal at Harper's Fern.-. They 
would also have seized Fortress Monroe had it not been for the 
timely arrival of Gen. B. F. Butler with a force of loyal men sufficient 
to make such an attempt ridiculous. The uprising of the North had 
placed more than 300.000 troops at the disposal of the President. 

Grand and glorious as was the uprising in all the free-labor 
^tates. the response in the border slave States was of another char- 



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acter. In Arkansas, North Carolina and Virginia the popular feel- 
ing had been opposed to secession, but the doctrine prevailed that 
the Government had no right to force a seceding State. When it 
came to a choice between fighting against the South or against the 
North, they chose the latter alternative, seceded from the Union and 
joined the Confederacy. There were many Union men, however, 
in all these States. The people of the eastern part of Tennessee, in 
spite of the action of their State Government, remained steadfastly 
loyal to the I'nion. In the western part of Virginia forty counties 
broke away from the old dominion of Virginia and formed a new 
State, which was afterwards admitted as West Virgina. By this sep- 
aration X'irginia lost two-thirds of her territory and one-fourth of her 
population. Kven with this loss Virginia was first in population 
among the eleven seceding States and she added a military strength 
to the Confederacy more than proportionate to her numbers. The 
Confederate capital was moved from Montgomery in Alabama to 
Richmond in \'irginia in May, 1861. The rivers in Virginia between 
Washington and Richmond constituted a series of strong natural 
defenses against an army proceeding southward. Virginia furnished 
the three ablest Confederate generals, Lee, Johnston and Jackson. 
Hut for the secession of Virginia the swords of these three distin- 
guished soldiers would doubtless have been drawn in defense of the 
(iovernment which had educated and made them ready for useful 
careers in a better cause. In many ways the secession of Virginia 
was a serious loss to the National Government. Great as was the 
loss to the (iovernment, the disasters which this move brought to 
Virginia were greater still. Her territory became the eastern battle 
ground. The destruction within her borders was a thing horrible to 
contemplate at the close of the Civil War. No other of the seceding 
States paid so fearful a price for their mistake' as did Virginia. 
Had she remained steadfast to the Union she must have profited 
largely by the war and become one of the foremost States of the 
Cnion long before this writing. 

On the loth of June occurred what was known as the battle of 
Big liethel, Virginia. It was a disastrous affair in which, through 
the incompetency of inexperienced officers, bodies of Union troops 
tired at each other, both at Little Bethel and Big Bethel. The 
blame of this affair was at first cast upon General Butler, and more 



GENERAL RUTLER AT R AL'l'IMORE. 7 I 

than eclipsed the glory he had won in taking possession of Balti- 
more and bringing traitors there to their senses. Later investi- 
gation, however, proved the misfortune at Big Bethel to be due to 
the failure of a staff officer to communicate the countersign and 
to have the men of the different commands wear the same badges 
and at the same time to have the men of all the commands know 
what the national badge and countersign was. After the passage 
of the 6th Massachusetts, disloyal organizations in Baltimore tore 
up the Philadelphia Railway north of Baltimore and also the 
Maryland Central to prevent troops reaching that city from the 
North. Butler, arriving at Perryville, took steamer to Annapolis, 
seized and repaired the railroad, which traitors had torn up, opened 
the road to Baltimore, and suddenly one morning appeared upon 
Federal Hill with an armed force and cannon mounted. He issued 
a proclamation informing the people of Baltimore and traitors through- 
out Maryland that they must behave themselves. The strong Union 
sentiment of a great majority of the citizens of Maryland suddenly 
broke forth in favor of the Union and Maryland in fact became a 
Union State. The capture of the United States arsenal at St. Louis 
with its large supply of munitions of war, and the holding of that chief 
city of the State in the Mississippi Valley, formed a capital feature 
in the plan of the conspirators. The watchful Captain Lyon had 
not failed to observe every move of the traitorous Governor Jackson. 
On the morning of the 19th, finding that the commander of Camp 
Jackson was receiving arms and munitions of war from the Confed- 
eracy, he made a quick movement, surrounded Camp Jackson with 
about 6,000 troops and heavy cannon and compelled them to sur- 
render in thirty minutes. By the promptness of Captain, afterward 
General, Lyon, and the sagacious management of Frank P. Blair 
and other loyal citizens, not only St. Louis but the State of Missouri 
was saved to the Lhiion. Many of her citizens found their way into 
the Confederate army, but to the end Missouri was loyal as she has 
since been both loyal and prosperous. Had Missouri seceded she 
would have added to the Confederacy a larger population than 
Virginia carried over to it. Her military situation was extremely 
important. Lying on the flank of Kentucky and Tennessee, had 
Missouri been securely held by a Confederate force it would have 
been very difficult for Federal armies to penetrate into the heart of 



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the Confederacy by the way of the Tennessee and Cumberland 
Rivers, as they afterwards did. The Government of Missouri was 
strongly secessionist, but the loyal people, guided by the prompt 
and resolute action of Mr. Blair and the brave General Lyon, saved 
the .State to add much to the greatness of the country. 

In Kentucky there was at first an attempt at neutrality between 
the North and South. This was, of course, impossible. Public 
opinion in this State was so much divided that sometimes one of the 
sons of a family went into the Confederate army while others joined 
and fought valiantly in the Northern army. President Lincoln knew 
the people of Kentucky well, having been born there. He under- 
stood, also, the importance of letting the Confederacy commit the first 
act of transgression upon its soil. They did this the first week in 
September, iS6i, when a force of 15,000 men, under General Polk, 
established themselves at Columbus and attempted to seize Paducah. 
.Another Confederate force, under General Zollicoffer, entered the 
southeastern portion of the State. At the news of these acts of 
invasion the Kentucky Legislature, by a large majority, voted to 
hoist the national flag over the capitol at Frankfort. There was a 
small Cnion force at Cairo commanded by Col. U. S. Grant. He 
was commanding the district of Southern Missouri. Polk occupied 
Columbus. Grant immediately seized Paducah. This was a Union 
victory, giving the Cnion army a hrm hold upon the two great rivers, 
the Tennessee and the Cumberland, two useful highways into the 
lieart of the Confederacy. The Kentucky Legislature voted to 
demand the removal of Polk and his Confederate troops from the 
State. An attempt to order the removal of Grant's forces was 
defeated. 'I'hus Kentucky was arrayed on the side of the Union. 

KIRSI' HKAVV FKlHI'INd. - 

It has been previously observed that the intensely patriotic 
Northern and Western people had been pouring out troops, 

varyin< 



money and supplies. Minor battles had been fought with vf 



degrees of defeat and failure. A small battle had been fought at 
Rooneville, Missouri, another at Carthage. The battle of Rich 
Mountain, West Virginia, was fought on the nth of July. So large 
an .iiniy had been concentrated in Washington and Virginia that 
lMil)lic opiuiou was clamorously demanding an advance upon Rich- 



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niond, the Confederate capital. The cry, "On to Richmond," "On 
to Richmond," was heard everywhere. The people wanted the war 
ended in three months. So great was the clamor that the Govern- 
ment ordered General McDowell, then commanding a force com- 
posed mostly of partially organized volunteer troops numbering 
about 35,000, to advance and attack the Confederate force which 
had concentrated and were well intrenched around Centreville and 
PjuII Run. There were about 23,000 Confederates, commanded by 
General Beauregard, who had been McDowell's classmate at West 
Point. At Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley was a Confederate 
force of 15,000, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. He was confronted 
by a similar force of Union troops, under Cien. Robert Patterson, a 
veteran of the War of 18 12. Relying upon Patterson to detain 
Johnston in the valley, it was McDowell's plan to attack and defeat 
Beauregard, combine his force with Patterson's, defeat Johnston 
and thus wipe out the force threatening Washington. Owing to 
various causes, however, he was late in starting, found the enemy at 
Bull Run fully informed of his intentions, ready for battle. Johnston 
eluded Patterson, left Winchester on the 18th of July and reaching 
Bull Run on the 20th with one of his brigades took command of the 
whole Confederate army there, thus swelling their force to about 
30,000. By the middle of the afternoon of the 21st, after consider- 
able fighting, well sustained on both sides, McDowell seemed on the 
point of victory, but the arrival of a fresh force from Winchester, 
under Gen. Kirby Smith, turned the scale. Ilie Union army was 
driven from the field, retreat became a rout, which was checked only 
within the intrenchments around Washington. Union losses were 
about 5,000 in killed and wounded. No advantage was gained by 
this advance except the lesson which was taught the North, not to 
make haste to thrust an unprepared army into battle. Much blame 
was cast upon McDowell. He was, however, a faithful, competent, 
and well-trained ofiicer, who afterwards did good service for his 
country, and many experts have since expressed the opinion that 
the Union armies of 1861 and "62 would have been more effective 
had he commanded them than they were under the command of 
General McClellan. This battle taught the North that they must 
not expect to make a speedy conquest of the South and that they 
must prepare for a long and cruel war. It strengthened the deter- 



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mination of the Xorthern people and incited them to greater exer- 
tions. The South went wild with rejoicings over the victory. Very 
little else was done at the East during the rest of 1861 except that 
the Confederate troops that had invaded West Virginia were driven 
out by McClellan and Rosecrans. Undue credit was given to Gen- 
eral McClellan for the part he bore in that region and in the autumn 
he succeeded the venerable (General Scott, as general in chief of 
the I'nited States Army. He devoted himself, however, to the task 
of organizing and drilling the splendid force about Washington 
which came to be known as the Army of the Potomac. 

Towards the end of the year occurred the affair of arresting 
two emissaries of the Confederacy upon the high seas while they 
were passengers in a British steamer, named the Trent, by Captain 
Wilkes of the navy. President Lincoln at once disavowed the act 
and gave up the prisoners. This was in the highest degree credit- [ 

able to President Lincoln and to the people of the United States, i( 

for this act was in direct contravention of the principles asserted 
bv us in the War of 18 12, denying the right of one neutral nation to 
search the ships of the other upon the high seas. This affair cre- 
ated much bitter feeling in England and America, which was much 
increased when fast Confederate cruisers were built and allowed to 
slip out of F.ritish ports to prey upon American commerce. The 
most famous of these privateers was the Alabama which did great 
damage to our commerce. Later on the British Government was 
warned by our ministers that the United States would not endure 
this kind of thing, and thereafter means were found to prevent such 
cruisers from going out. 



CHAPTER VII. 

REVOLUTION IN NAVAL WARFARE THE MONITOR AND MERRIMAC 

EVENTS UP TO THE TIME OF OUR CALL. 

We have noted in a previous chapter the destruction of naval 
vessels in the navy yard at Norfolk, among others the burning of 
the Merrimac. This stanch old ship of the line was burned to the 
water's edge and sunk. She was afterward raised by the Confed- 
erates, and upon her hull was put a hip or covered roof, heavily 
armored, with armored ports so arranged as to be opened and closed. 
Her fighting deck was the main deck of the old Merrimac. A new 
idea had been proposed at some previous time to the officers of the 
army for seacoast defense. It was the device of a revolving turret, 
containing either one or two guns. This turret in its first appear- 
ance had commanded some attention, but had received no serious 
consideration or likelihood of adoption. The idea, however, was 
not lost. Ericsson, the Swede, true to the instincts of his maritime 
people, had been seized with the idea of applying it to naval vessels. 
He had improved upon the idea, devised new appliances for its 
operation and had found a financial backer. When, therefore, the 
great crisis, threatening the destruction of our entire navy and our 
seaboard cities, had been brought upon the country by the first 
day's performance of this new armored wonder, the Merrimac, 
Ericsson was ready for a hearing. His new craft, manned by expe- 
rienced naval officers, made haste to the scene of yesterday's conliict. 
When the dreaded Merrimac steamed leisurely out of Norfolk to 
finish what little was left of our wooden navy, she was confronted 
by a new antagonist, destined to tire a shot fatal to the dreaded 
monster ; a shot that was to be heard around the world ; a shot 
that sent consternation to the naval constructors of the new 
Confederacy and to the commanders of navies on every sea. She 
was the little one-turreted, two-gunned Monitor of Ericsson. The 
heavy shots of the Merrimac bounded from her steel-armored turret 
like peas from the side of a cast-iron kettle. A great shout of relief 



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went up from every loyal heart when her first day's performance 
was finished. She was the creature of the hour. Here was the 
precursor of certain naval victory for the North in this war. To 
the commanders of foreign fleets riding in Hampton Roads on that 
famous March day, 1862, she was a startling surprise. Here was 
the new type around which should gather the ideas for the future 
navies of the world. Here was the beginning of the great turreted 
battle ship of the future. Here was the invention from which 
should be developed all the powerful naval vessels of a generation. 
The idea embodied in the Merrimac was not new. The Yankees 
were not slow in applying it to river boats on the Mississippi and 
its tributaries. This type w^as used by the Confederates in their 
ram, >[anassas. which they supposed invulnerable until a greater 
instrumentality appeared which made her useless. The simple 
torj)edo attached to a pole was too powerful an agent to be resisted. 
We are, at the time of this writing, quite proud of the appearance and 
prestige of our magnificent new navy. The great achievements it 
wrought for us during our late war with Spain brought new glory to 
Americans upon the seas. The destruction of the whole Asiatic 
fleet of Spain in a few hours' engagement by Admiral Dewey, and 
the capture of an immense and valuable archipelago lying directly 
in the line of an unknown future trade development, was a great 
victory for this Monitor idea. Later in the same year the destruc- 
tion of Spain's most powerful fleet, the pride of her navy, in two 
hours, was another feat to stimulate our pride. These two occasions 
were really the first trial of the real character of our new ships of war. 
They were in no way less successful than their famous prototype, 
the little Monitor. The great achievements of the Monitor class in 
restoring the unity of our country, by battering down the strongholds 
of secession, have been scarcely understood or appreciated. The 
amount of new respect which foreigners now feel for the American 
navy, since its achievements in the war with Spain, is by no means 
among the least of our acquisitions in that short war. The additions 
to our naval power since the war with Spain have added very much 
to our inHuence and standing among the nations of the earth. The 
construction of powerful new naval vessels is by no means a total 
loss to us as a country. It affords employment to thousands of 
^^Vill.-d njt'chanics. It has been the beginning of a new skill which 



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77 



will enable the American people to build up for themselves a new 
merchant marine which shall hereafter bring back to us our former 
glory upon the seas. 

We are reminded, however, that no invention of the human 
mind can long remain at the front or foremost. The spirit of inven- 
tion born in our struggle has not yet ceased, consequently the battle 
ship is passing out, its destroyer is at hand. The Holland sub- 
marine boat will shortly become an overmastering power to the 
largest and best battle ship afloat; able to destroy them in an 
instant without being herself seen. The air ship is no longer a 
simple experiment. She will figure in the next naval war. Her 
dynamite torpedoes must be met by some new invention or avoided. 
Land forces also have this new instrument of war to reckon with. 
Troops cannot hide from her observation. No projectile now known 
can reach her lofty heights. Battles in the air and battles under 
the sea are things for the next generations to meet, to understand, 
and to master. What will be the result ? The development in 
naval warfare, the powerful guns upon our great battle ships, has 
rendered all our old land fortifications as useless as our old wooden 
ships. A new type of seacoast defenses has appeared. The great 
disappearing gun with twenty-mile range was unknown to the warfare 
of our day. Our hundred-pounder Parrott rifle gun and the long- 
range Whitworth gun, supplied to our enemies by England, were 
marvels of long range and accuracy in our time. They would be 
about as useful now as toy pistols were then. The old twenty-four 
and thirty-two-pound smooth bore cannon, which frowned from 
parapets of our earthworks around Washington in 1862 to 1865, are 
useful now only for their metal and as souvenirs of antiquity. The 
triangular piles of round solid shot, which adorned the interior of our 
fortifications, would be void of terror and have no place in modern 
warfare. It seems to us, who survived the struggle of 1861 to 1865, 
that while our guns and our implements of warfare have passed into 
antiquity we also have passed out from our usefulness as soldiers. 
We could no longer be valiant defenders of our nation's honor and 
integrity. We have, however, the satisfaction that we builded well 
for those who were to follow. Our last naval warfare was the best 
illustration that improvements in arms and implements of war do 
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developments do l)ut prove the history of the past, that the more 
terrible the weapons of war the less destructive to Ufe they seem 

to be. 

The defensive line of the Confederates extended through Ken- 
tucky from the Mississippi River to Cumberland Gap in the Alle- 
ghanies. Its center was at Forts Henry on the Tennessee River 
and Donelson on the Cumberland, w^here it was opposed by General 
Grant with forces which presently formed the westernmost of the 
three great Federal armies and came to be known as the Army of 
the Tennessee. The Confederate right wing extended eastward 
from Bowling Green and was opposed by General Buell with the 
middle great Federal army, which became known as the Army of 
the Cumberland, liuell's left wing w^as commanded by General 
Thomas, who in January, 1862, won an important victory at Mill 
Spring and drove back the Confederate right. This battle has also 
been called the battle of Beech Grove, Fishing Creek and Somerset. 
The Federal loss was 39 killed and 208 w^ounded. The Confederate 
loss was 192 killed, 62 wounded and 89 prisoners. Among their 
killed was General Zollicoffer, whose loss at that time was irrepara- 
ble. This victory was considered one of the most important that 
had yet been achieved by the Federal arms. It broke the lines of 
the Confederates in Kentucky, opened a door of deliverance for 
Fast Tennessee and prepared the way for that first of successful 
operations by which very soon afterward the invaders were expelled 
from both States. The defeat was severely felt by the Confederates, 
for they were wise enough to perceive its significance, foretelling, as 
it did, further melancholy disasters to their cause. The next month 
General Grant, aided by Commodore Foote and his gunboats, cap- 
tured Kort Henry and Fort Donelson, taking 15,000 prisoners. The 
victory was a brilliant affair. After the Confed'erate line had been 
carried by storm and the only avenue of their retreat had been 
cut off, the commander asked what terms could be made. General 
CJrant's reply was: " No terms except unconditional and immediate 
surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon 
your works." This reply so greatly pleased the people of the coun- 
try that they immediately began to call General Grant, by the initials 
of his name, Inconditional Surrender Grant. It made him from 
that tune one of tiie most conspicuous among the Union generals. 



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The capture of P'ort Donelson was the first really great victory 
gained by either side and it was a severe blow to the Confederates. 
It forced them to give up nearly the whole of Tennessee. The next 
stand of the Confederates was made along the line from Memphis 
to Chattanooga, and they began massing their forces at Corinth. 
Albert Sidney Johnston, one of the ablest generals in the Confeder- 
ate army, was in command, with General Beauregard who had been 
sent westward from Virginia second in command. Grant advanced 
toward them as far as Pittsburgh Landing, on the west bank of the 
Tennessee River, and General Buell was on the way to join him 
there. Johnston then moved up suddenly from Corinth, purposing 
to attack and crush Grant before Buell could join him. Thus 
occurred the great battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862, otherwise 
known as the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, in which nearly 100,000 
men were engaged and more than 20.000 were killed and wounded. 
General Johnston was killed on the first day, General Beauregard 
succeeding him in command. During the first day it seemed as if 
the Confederates were winning, but General Grant stubbornly held 
the field until nightfall, when General Buell's troops began to arrive. 
The outlook at the close of the 6th would have discouraged most 
commanders, but during that night General Grant made disposition 
of his own army and of the reinforcements under Buell and promptly 
attacked the Confederates on the morning of the 7th. After six hours 
of desperate fighting the Confederates were obliged to retreat with 
severe loss. Some weeks afterward they lost Corinth and thus their 
second line of defense was broken. During the latter part of 1861 
the forts at Hatteras Inlet were captured and also Port Royal, South 
Carolina, and several small islands along the coast. Such places 
served as points of supply for LInion fieets and for their armies 
which had eft'ected a landing there, and also as lairs from which our 
vessels of war could pounce upon blockade runners or sally out to 
assail places on the coast. 

In April, 1862, the Federal Heet under Farragut and Porter 
performed one of the most memorable exploits in naval history, 
when it ran by the strong forts at the mouth of the Mississippi River, 
defeated the Confederate fleet, captured the city of New Orleans and 
got control of the river nearly up to Vicksburg. At the same time 
the river fleet above, aided by a small land force under (General 



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Pope, captured the island Number lo, that is the tenth island below 
the mouth of the Ohio River, thus opening the upper portion of the 
Mississippi River as far down as Memphis. The Union river fleet 
went down and completely destroyed the Confederate river fleet at 
Memphis. 'Huis this series of magnificent Union victories reduced 
the Confederates in the west to the two important positions of Vicks- 
burg on the Mississippi River and Chattanooga in the southeastern 
part^of Tennessee. These two places were of immense importance 
from a military point of view, and over each of them occurred mem- 
orable struggles to which we shall allude in a later chapter. Com- 
pared with the rapid progress of the Union armies in the west, 
affairs in the east seemed to stand almost still. Richmond, the 
Confederate capital, was conceived to be the objective point to be 
reached by the Army of the Potomac. General McClellan had a 
plan by which he wished to advance upon Richmond by way of the 
lames River, but the Administration, careful for the safety of the 
national capital, desired him to advance in such a way as to keep 
his army interposed between the Confederate Army and the city of 
Washington. General McClellan decided to advance by way of the 
N'ork River instead of the James, while a part of his army, under 
General McDowell, was started toward Richmond by the way of 
Fredericksburg. The other approach to Washington, through the 
.Shenandoah Valley, was watched by small Union forces under Gen- 
erals Banks and Fremont. The skillful Confederate generals against 
whom the cautious McClellan was pitted soon made havoc of all his 
arrangements, (ien. Joseph E. Johnston at first commanded the 
Confederate forces. After detaining McClellan for a month in 
besieging the weak position of the Confederates at Yorktown, John- 
ston abandoned that place and withdrew toward Richmond. In 
following him McClellan's army was brought into a dangerous posi- 
tion. He moved one portion of his army on the south side and the 
other up the north side of the Chickahominy River. A sudden rise 
of that river nearly cut McClellan's army in two. Johnston seized 
his opportunity, struck the southern half of McClellan's army with 
nearly his whole force and in the bloody battle of Fair Oaks, May 
;^ist, nearly destroyed one wing of McClellan's army. In this battle 
General Johnston was wounded and the chief command devolved 
upon Gen. Robert K. Lee. Meantime the famous Stonewall Jackson 



A PANIC IN WASHINGTON. 8 1 

suddenly swooped into the Shenandoah Valley, defeated the P'ed- 
erals, and excited such panic in Washington that McDowell's force 
had to be withdrawn to defend the capital. This was just what 
Jackson planned to have happen. Having accomplished his purpose, 
he lost no time in joining General Lee before Richmond. McClel- 
lan was sorely disappointed by the withdrawal of McDowell and he 
began changing his base to the James River. Lee attacked him 
while making the change and a week of severe fighting, known as 
the seven days' battle, ended at Malvern Hill, where Lee met with 
a bloody repulse. The tardy movements of General McClellan, his 
apparent inability to get more than one or two divisions of his army 
into a battle at one time, and his constant disposition of overesti- 
mating the forces of his adversary and to underrate his own, caused 
the Administration and the people to greatly distrust either his 
ability, his loyalty, or both. He at all times seemed much averse to 
hurting the dear people of the South. Although immense resources 
were placed at his disposal, his ability seemed to go no farther than 
that of organizing and engineering. Fighting battles seemed to be 
out of his line. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

KKMM t.\II>lMKNT T< • \VASHIN(;T<)X — THE EVENT, THE MEN, THE 

RESL'LT. 

B\ Lieutenant Colonel Zemro A. Smith. 

lulv I, 1S62. the magnificent army which McClellan had been 
a vear organizing and disciplining, which the whole loyal North 
believed with fullest faith would capture Richmond, lay at Harri- 
son's Landing, on the James River, thinned and baffled. It had 
fou2ht with unsurpassed gallantry; it had been directed with match- 
less stupidity. In detail, one or two corps at a time, it had fought 
the terrible odds of the whole army of Northern Virginia. In spite 
of explanation and protestation, the country knew that McClellan 
had failed. 

Never were the hopes of a people so rudely shattered. In a 
week the loyal North knew that the war, which it confiidently believed 
in May would end in July, would end — who could tell when? Early 
in luly came President Lincoln's call for 300,000 more of three 
years' men. From the appalling failure of McClellan the loyal 
people turned with patriotic zeal to raising the new regiments. No 
longer could the sanguine recruiting officer entice men to enlist with 
assurances of a year's service with scarcely a prospect of battle, 
since the war was sure to end in a few months. Every man knew 
intuitively that to enlist was to go into war which might last years, 
tilled up with bloody battles, and hardships even more fatal to life 
and health. P)Ut certain that enlistment meant aril the perils of war, 
men never volunteered more freely. The earlier enthusiasm was 
over; the days of high bounties were more than a year distant. 
Now men enlisted by thousands from a sense of duty or because, as 
able-bodied men, they were ashamed to stay at home longer. No 
regiments were more quickly raised than those of Maine recruited 
in July and early in August of 1862. When it is added that no 
better regiments ever went from Maine than the Sixteenth, Seven- 
teenth, I'-ighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth, it is said that no 
more gallant were in the Union Army. 



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The Eighteenth Maine Volunteers, subsequently the First 
Maine Heavy Artillery, was recruited at the outset in Penobscot, 
Hancock, Piscataquis and Washington Counties. Company A was 
recruited in Lincoln and contiguous northeastern towns in Penob- 
scot: Company P, largely in Pangor: Company C, in Ellsworth, 
Trenton, Mount Desert, Eden, Surry and the smaller towns in the 
vicinity; Company D, in Pangor, Prewer and adjoining towns; 
Company E, chiefly in Piscataquis County and Dixmont, Lee, and 
Pangor in Penobscot County; Company F, in Hampden, Levant 
and other western Penobscot towns with a few from Pangor; Com- 
pany G, in Pucksport, Orland, Penobscot, Tremont and neighboring 
towns in Hancock ; Company H, in Cherryfield, Addison, Columbia, 
Harrington and vicinity; (Company I, in Old Town, Orono, Pradley, 
etc. ; Company K, in Eastport, Dennysville, Pembroke and contigu- 
ous towns. They were farmers, lumbermen, seafaring men, with a 
sprinkling of clerks, high-school graduates, etc. The work of enlist- 
ing began about the middle of July, and by August loth all the 
companies were more than full and at the rendezvous. 

If the men of the Eighteenth had not been good men they 
would have disgraced not only themselves, but their fathers, broth- 
ers, and neighbors. The already famous Second Maine, the fighting 
Sixth, parts of the equally renowned Seventh and Ninth, of the 
splendid Eleventh and the peerless First Cavalry had been recruited 
from the same counties and towns. With these men, already illus- 
trious on the field, the men of the Eighteenth had tilled the same 
frugal soil, cut lumber in the same forests, worked on the same 
''drives," sailed the same " coasters," fished in the same smacks, 
cut their initials, side by side, deep in the same schoolhouse desks, 
and together been switched therefor. The same struggle with the 
forces of Nature for subsistence had made both self-reliant; the 
same bracing climate had poured the same iron into their blood. 
They came forth from the same frugal and virtuous homes as did 
their predecessors to the call of the President, and responded, as 
they had: "We're coming. Father Abraham." Pecause the Second 
and the Sixth had been the best of soldiers, the men of the Eight- 
eenth knew that they themselves would be stayers on the "gilt-edged 
hell of battle," on the terrible march, or wherever high spirit and 
robust courage were required. 



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As many men were added to the Regiment as recruits as were 
mustered in 'at IJangor, August 21, 1862. They came from nearly 
every part of the State, but they were practically Maine men, and 
on every occasion contributed a full share to the sacrifice and the 
glory of the First Maine Heavy Artillery. Put into the ranks with 
men who had been drilled and disciplined a year and a half, they 
rapidly acquired their soldierly qualities. When the Regiment first 
met the enemy at Spottsylvania and received its baptism of fire and 
blood, the man of January, 1864, stood beside the man of 1862 ; side 
by side they fell, and their mingling blood purpled the same green- 
sward on that fatal May afternoon of 1864. For thirty days there- 
after the order was, "Assault the enemy's line"; for thirty nights, 
'• i;y the left Hank, march" — but day and night, fighting or march- 
ing, original and recruit touched elbow. In the shuddering charge 
of June 18th, in which 615 men and officers were killed or bore the 
blood marks of battle, they were not the men of the Eighteenth nor 
the recruits which won a renown, beside which "The Charge of the 
Light brigade" rendered immortal by Tennyson becomes common- 
place, but the men of the gallant First Maine Heavy Artillery. 
Whatever of achievement, whatever of glory, is recorded on the 
pages which follow belongs to all the men on its muster rolls. In a 
roll of "killed and died of wounds," longer than any other Union 
regiment, and greater in length in proportion to the total enrolled 
to any in the Tnion Army, there is glory enough for all and for the 
sons and son's sons who shall come after them. 

The pauseless current of time is bearing the survivors of that 
peerless Regiment to "that low, green tent whose curtain never 
outward swings." And when it shall have closed upon the last of 
us, the memories which are the spirit and inspiration of history will 
have passed to oblivion, and all that will remain of that story of 
hi-h devotion and noble sacrifice will be scattered through official 
reports which, if they were truthful in detail, as they are not, lack 
the movement and the life of the narrative told by those who were 
of it, whose worn eyes Hash with unwonted fire when the words 
'* First Maine Heavy Artillery" fall upon their ears, and fill with 
tears as they meet or recall the high comradeship of those days of 
danger and glory. To preserve the names and deeds of the dead 
is not only a duty we owe to the dead, it is to confer upon the pos- 
terity of the dead and living a precious and priceless heritage. 



EVERY MAN ON THE ROLLS ACCOUNTED FOR. 85 

Between the muster in at Bangor, August 21, 1862, and the 
last gun at Appomattox, April 9, 1865, the rolls of the First Maine 
Heavy Artillery bore the names of 2,200 men, of whom 441 were 
killed in action or died of wounds; 922 were wounded and 215 died 
of disease. 

The foregoing figures mean that one-fifth of the number of men 
enrolled in the First Maine Heavy Artillery died of battle. They 
mean that after those dying of battle and of disease are taken from 
the total enrolled, 60 of every 100 of the survivors bore the marks of 
battle when the war ended. They mean that 1,363 men of 2,200 
were killed in or bore the scars of battle. They mean that 62 of 
every 100 men of the total 2,200 were killed or battle-marked. 

It has been admitted for years that no regiment in the service 
lost so many men in "killed and died of wounds" as did the First 
Maine Heavy Artillery. By the records of the war department, as 
compiled by Lieutenant Colonel Fox, the per centum of lost by the 
Seventh Wisconsin is a fraction larger than that of our Regiment, 
the per centum of the former being 19.7 and that of the latter 19.2. 
Thanks to the indefatigable industry of Major House every man has 
been accounted for, reducing the actually enrolled two men from 
the count of Lieutenant Colonel Fox, increasing the "killed and died 
of wounds" from 423 to 441, and reducing the death by disease from 
260 to 2 15. This discrepancy is due to the fact that quite a number 
of men who were reported to the war department as dying of disease 
were found, upon investigation, to have died from wounds; also that 
27 of those reported as dying of disease were members of the 
Seventeenth and Nineteenth Maine, whose deaths were reported 
after their transfer to our Regiment. So to the First Maine Heavy 
Artillery belongs the distinction of having lost the largest number 
of any regiment in the service by battle and the largest per centum 
of the total number of men enrolled. It heads the list of the fight- 
ing regiments in battle losses. 

It is curious to note that the regiments which record the heavi- 
est losses by battle suffer the smallest loss by disease, while those 
whose losses by disease were almost shockingly large lost very few 
in battle. It is also quite remarkable that not over 150 of the 2,047 
regiments in the service lost more men in battle than by disease. 
The 300 fighting regiments, whose records are given in full in Fox's 



g5 THK KIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

•• Regimental Losses," embracing every regiment which lost ten per 
cent^of its enrolled men by battle, contributed over 60 per cent, of 
the 110,000 killed in battle and died of wounds. It is to tell in 
a simple manner, with greatest possible accuracy, the story of the 
Regiment which stands at the head of those losing in battle. 

There need be no doubt regarding the accuracy of the statistics. 
Major Charles J. House has done for the First Maine Heavy 
Artillery what no man has done for any other regiment. He 
has accounted for every man on its rolls. Not one of the 2.200 has 
l)een lost. This work has required weeks and months of patient 
and intelligent investigation, covering a score of years. He has 
been assisted by others, but all will cheerfully join in saying that 
the service of any one man cannot be compared with that of Major 
House. He and he alone has made this book the complete record 
of men that it is. He is entitled to unstinted praise and gratitude 
for his incalculable service. 

If one had no limit to space it would be easier to fill volumes 
than to condense data into one. But the history of such a regiment 
needs no padding ; it is enough that the truth is told. To obtain 
the truth days and weeks have been spent, official papers have been 
culled, personal accounts have been verified, to the end that every 
name on that illustrious roll, dead and living, shall be reported by 
the record makers: "All present or accounted for." 

COLONEL DANIEL CHAPLIN IHE RENDEZVOUS. 

It was announced, as soon as the recruiting was begun, that 
the eastern regiment would be the Eighteenth Maine Volunteers, 
and that its Colonel would be Daniel Chaplin, then Major of the 
.Second Maine. We did not know it then for we were busy recruit- 
ing, and many did not know it for a long time, but the Regiment 
was most fortunate in its Colonel. He was a born soldier: more 
than that, his was a noble nature, manly, kind and yet commanding. 
His presence carried authority which no one questioned. It was 
not necessary for him to adopt a role of petty tyranny and interfer- 
ence lo keep his men apprised of the fact that he was Colonel. He 
dul not patronize his subordinates or tell them that they were his 
e(iuals. None of these matters ever came up. His manliness, his 
solicitude for the welfare of his command, his rugged sense of justice. 



AN IDEM, VOLUNTEER COLONEL. 87 

won the affection of all decent men who met him. Because he was 
such a man as he was, the Eighteenth or First Maine Heavy Artillery 
was what may be called a happy regiment. There were no wrangles 
among officers nor quarrels in companies. Every officer knew that 
Colonel Chaplin was his friend so long as he did his duty, and every 
officer knew that there would be trouble the momont he did not 
discharge his duties faithfully, and the dullest man was too wise to 
be looking after trouble with Colonel Chaplin. One never heard 
much of discipline in the Regiment; it was not necessary, because, 
under Colonel Chaplin, it became a second nature to behave well, 
to do duty faithfully, and to obey orders. It seemed to be no effort 
to maintain the authority necessary to make the First Maine Heavy 
Artillery the regiment it was, orderly, quiet, punctual in duty, 
unflinching in danger. It was largely due to the fact that Daniel 
Chaplin was an ideal volunteer colonel that the Regiment was what 
it was. 

Daniel Chaplin was born in Naples, Cumberland County, 
Maine, January 22, 1820. He lived with his uncle on a farm 
until twenty-one years of age, when he came to Bangor, where he 
found employment, working his way up step by step, so that when 
the war broke out he was the confidential clerk and bookkeeper of 
the then well-known firm of Thurston & Metcalf. He had taken an 
interest in military affairs and was connected with a uniformed 
company in Bangor when the war broke out He was one of the 
first to enlist, which he did a few days after the firing on Fort Sum- 
ter, as a private in Company F, Second Maine. He was chosen 
Captain of the company and saw all the service of the army of the 
Potomac. He was early promoted to be Major, and in that capac- 
ity served in McClellan's Peninsula campaign. So meritorious had 
been his service, that when a Colonel was desired for one of the 
new regiments Governor Washburn lost no time in tendering him 
the appointment. His acceptance was written from Harrison's 
Landing, where McClellan's army was at that time. He arrived at 
Bangor just before the companies of the new regiment began to 
assemble. 

Colonel Chaplin had with him, as adjutant, Russell B. Shepherd, 
whose name from first to last was identified with the Regiment. 
He had seen no service when made Adjutant, but he picked up the 



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necessary information to enable him to instruct captains in making 
muster rdls and keeping account at the outset. He had the advan- 
tage of a Hberal education, having been graduated from Waterville 
Colleo-e in 1857. He had an organizing mind which especially 
fitted him for the responsible position. 

Thomas H. Talbot, Lieutenant Colonel, arrived while the Regi- 
ment was forming. His name recalls one of the most influential 
families in eastern Maine. Colonel Talbot was a scholarly man 
and a well-read lawyer. He was a man of high sense of honor, a 
worthy example for the men of a regiment. 

Charles Hamlin, the son of the then Vice President, was Major. 
He was one of the most popular officers in the Regiment, courteous, 
considerate, and enthusiastic. Soon after the Regiment was trans- 
ferred to the artillery arm of the service. Major Hamlin, desiring 
active service, was appointed Assistant Adjutant General with the 
rank of Major, and was assigned to the famous Third Corps. In 
his official capacity he distinguished himself for soldierly qualities 
at (iettysburg. 

It was the rare fortune of the Regiment to have Horatio 
Pitcher for its organizing Quartermaster. He had been Quarter- 
master vSergeant in the Second Maine. It is only in subsequent 
years that officers fully realized the efficiency and helpfulness of 
this faithful and efficient officer. He helped us over many rough 
places, but like several other competent officers the war department 
took him from us early in our history, and set him at the more 
responsible duty of buying horses. When the Regiment was made 
one of Artillery he was saved to the service by being assigned to 
Company C as ranking First Lieutenant. Just before the muster 
out in June, 1865, he came back to us. 

Our first surgeon was Dr. Rotheus E. Paine, and the assistants 
were Dr. Jerome 15. p:ikins and Dr. Albert R. Lincoln, all men of 
skill and experience. In the field, when full surgeon, Dr. Elkins 
was one of those who were always kept at division hospital because 
of his skill in dealing with wounds. If there were better regimental 
doctors than Dr. Lincoln, we did not know it and did not care to. 

1 he companies of the new Regiment began to arrive in Bangor 
during the first days of August. As the companies arrived they 
were -iven their letters. The Lincoln company, Capt. William C. 



LEARNING THE DUTIES OF SOLDIERS. 89 

Clark, was the first to arrive. Captain Daggett's company was the 
second, while the Ellsworth company, Capt. Zemro A. Smith, was a 
hot third. A week later the ten companies were on the ground, 
and two others had been sent to join the Twentieth Regiment in 
Portland. 

When we arrived we found tents pitched, and an abundance 
of excellent beef, bread, and coffee pro\ided by Hon, Llewellyn J. 
Morse, the agent of the State. The most of the officers were inno- 
cent of even the most elementary knowledge of anything which 
pertained to the duties of soldiers. Some of us could tell the differ- 
ence between a company in line and in a column of fours, but if 
we had been compelled to form a company in column of fours we 
should have given the order as it was said that a colonel once did, 
after having seen the formation the previous day, namely : "Atten- 
tion ! Get into four rows and march endways as you did yesterday." 
Fortunately we had a few men who could drill squads, and Sergeant 
Major John A. Lancy drilled the officers, out of sight of the men, in 
company evolutions. As I now remember it, he gave a prodigious 
amount of exercise by his rapid evolutions. Some officers tried to 
drill companies by the tactics, sometimes with the tactics in hand. 
One order was read as follows: "To form a company in column of 
platoons give the order 'right or left wheel, as the case maybe, 
into line.' " 

Then there was a deal of surgeons' examination and swearing 
in. When enrolled every man was examined and sworn in. When 
the company was full at Bangor, the men were put through another 
surgeons' examination by Surgeon Paine and Assistant Surgeon 
Elkins and sworn into the State's service, and lastly the companies 
were inspected and sworn into the service of the United States. 
After so much swearing, it is not to be wondered at that a few men 
kept it up as a sort of reminder that they were in the army. 

But the real transformation came the day the Regiment was 
notified that each man would draw clothing. The official quarters 
became misfit stores. There was too much of some suits, but mostly 
too little of many. The space between the terminus of the trousers 
and the tops of the new army shoes w^as often an illustration of the 
heresy of secession. Nothing in this world could bring them 
together. In time the men got into their new clothes, but it was 



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long before they felt or looked natural. Fortunately there \vere no 
looking-glasses. There was the altogether useless little army cap 
issuec^and worn at that time. Men regarded it as a joke and wore 
it in all forms but that of a soldier. 

( )ne day the Regiment was ordered down town to get arms and 
equipments. At that time the equipments consisted of an unneces- 
sary amount of leather straps and a cartridge box. These were put 
on in all conceivable manners at first, but the men adjusted them- 
selves to the harness in a brief space. As we marched back to 
camp that afternoon, we were sure that we were equipped as the 
regulations required, but oh, how wonderfully and even fearfully 
made up we felt ourselves to be. Fortunately there were a few men 
who had seen uniforms before. They were of immense service, as 
most of them were non-commissioned officers. 

MrsiERLI) IX MOVlNc; TO THE FRONT BARKER'S POEM. 

August 1 8th Colonel Chaplin sent all of the captains word to 
keep their men well in hand. This meant that no more men were 
to be allowed to visit their homes to show themselves in their uni- 
forms. It meant that muster into the United States service was at 
hand. No leaves of absence were granted, and all the officers did 
their utmost to teach the men military tactics, which they did not 
themselves much understand. 

On the morning of August 21st we were notified that we were 
to be mustered into the United States service. We had been mus- 
tered in two or three times before that, but this mustering in seemed 
to have more of business about it. Captain Bartlett, of the United 
States Army, was sent to us for that purpose. Many of us had 
never seen a Regular Army Officer in full uniform, and if he were 
nf)t a "sight for gods and men," he was a wonderment to the new 
men of the Regiment, who had never seen a full uniform. We will 
not undertake to describe him, but there was something in the bear- 
ing and the glance of this Regular Army Captain which struck most 
of us with awe. 

We were mustered one company at a time, and from a distance 
the officers and the men of other companies looked to see what 
kmd of a performance mustering into the United States service was. 
Captain liartlelt closely inspected everv man as he stood in line; 



THE START FOR WASHINGTON. 9 1 

he looked at the knapsacks and the equipments, and then, with 
muster roll in hand, he stood in front and called the roll, commenc- 
ing with the captain of the company and ending with the last man 
in the list, checking those who might happen to be absent, if such 
there were. Fortunately there were few of these. The names called, 
he bade us lift our right hands and bare our heads while we repeated 
after him the solemn oath which made us Tnited States soldiers. 

It took nearly all day to muster the Regiment, but those of us 
who were well up in the letters felt that we were very much more 
important than were those companies down af ter " H " ; but as a 
matter of fact there was no difference, except that Company K, 
Captain Sabine, of Eastport, had the advantage of having a well- 
drilled officer, and a considerable portion of his company had been 
drilled and had given us some examples of drill that made us wonder 
if we could ever attain to such a skirmish drill as he set before us. 

After we had been mustered into the service the paymasters 
came. One of them, Colonel Robie, subsequently the honored 
Governor of Maine, paid the enlisted men the $55.00 State bounty 
and the month's advance pay; and another paymaster, whose name 
I do not recall, paid them the first installment of $45.00 of the 
$100.00 United States bounty. The commissioned officers, however, 
got no pay, and if any of them had money they must have borrowed 
it, or gotten credit of Michael Gilligan, the sutler, who was our 
banker, and to whose great credit it may be said that he was gener- 
ous in his dealings with the officers of the Regiment. He had the 
uniforms made for the most of us, and did not get his pay in full for 
months after we entered the service. 

The day we were mustered in, notice was given to keep every 
man in hand, for we were sure to start for Washington at an early 
day and with very little notice. The evening of August 23d, which 
was Saturday, we were notified that the Regiment would take the 
train the next morning, Sunday, August 24th. There was very 
much to do, for men as well as officers. The men had to send bun- 
dles home, containing their old clothing, and they had to see their 
fathers, mothers, wives, and sweethearts, who crowded to the camp 
ground. It seemed that they were there all the time, day and night. 

Sunday morning the big Sibley tents were struck at an early 
hour and loaded into wagons, which took them and the camp equi- 



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page to the train. The men were ordered to have three days of 
cooked rations, but, as usual with new troops, little heed was paid 
to the order, and officers failed to see that the order was carried 
out. As a matter of fact, there was so much excitement and the 
men were so eager to go forward, food was not much thought of. 

We marched to the train about ten o'clock, and before noon we 
were on our way to the front. We did not reach Portland until late 
in the evening, and the next morning at nine o'clock many of us saw 
Boston for the first time. There were no incidents of any impor- 
tance during our trip to Washington ; all was new to the most of us. 
We were crowded into cars, two men to a seat, night and day. The 
Pullman car was unknown to the volunteer of 1862, who was glad 
for a seat in an ordinary car. 

It would be interesting to note some of the incidents of the 
route. All survivors will remember our reception at the cooper 
shop in Philadelphia, — the refreshing bath that many had and the 
excellent supper, — and the younger ones will remember the lines of 
young ladies that they passed as the dusk closed upon us on our 
way to the station, and doubtless a few will remember how they 
were saluted in a small way, after the manner of Hobson. 

We arrived in Washington about noon the 27th. It was no 
novelty to Washington to see marching soldiers at that time. Indeed 
the guns of the enemy could almost be heard from Centerville, for 
this was the time they were pushing Gen. John Pope to disastrous 
defeat. 

We were quickly unloaded from the cars and marched into a 
huge barrack, where we were served with a slice of bread and a 
piece of boiled beef, with poor coffee to drink. Some of us won- 
dered if this was the sort of thing we were coming to, bread and 
beef and no butter, and no place to sit down. Such soldiers as had 
a little money purchased the dreadful pies that w^ere for sale by not 
very clean-looking women with baskets. Very naturally we all saw 
rebels on every hand, and we heard stories of pies with pulverized 
glass 111 tiiem being sold to men, as if the pies themselves were not 
deadly enough without the glass. In fact, most of us thought that 
we were in the midst of rebeldom, and that everybody, male or 
female, who did not wear a uniform, was a rebel, and that nothing 
would have made him happier than to have killed us. 



DAVID BARKER S POEM. 93 

I shall always remember the remark of one volunteer as he sat 
gazing out of the window early one morning while we were passing 
through Maryland. He saw a house with the chimney built outside, 
and having come from the country where the chimneys were hospit- 
ably entertained by being inclosed, this was a wonderment to him, 
and after gazing on it for a few moments he made the following 
remark: ''The secesh down here are so tarnal mean that they turn 
their chimbleys outdoors." 

After we had had our dinner, and had learned that the country 
was uncomfortably warm, w^e were ordered into line and given a 
good hard march down by the navy yard and across the east branch 
of the Potomac to Fort Baker. It was a very tiring march in the 
heat of the day for the men with heavy knapsacks, but it was only 
a foretaste of what they became accustomed to in the years that 
followed. 

That night we were encamped without tents on the side of a 
hill which had been washed by the rain, leaving upon the surface 
stones about the size of a robin's egg. We had not been used to 
that sort of thing, and we became very restless upon the gravel. 
We did not have very much to eat, but some way the men did not 
seem to think much about it. 

The next morning we went in swimming by the hundreds, and 
in the afternoon were marched back to Washington and out on 
Seventh Street, where we went into camp near where Fort Massa- 
chusetts was then building. 

This may be said to conclude our movement from Bangor in 
Maine to Washington, while the future movements of the regiments 
will be as soldiers in the field. 

One of the spectators, while we marched through the streets 
of Bangor to take the cars, was the poet, David Barker. He was 
so moved by the sight that he wrote the following lines, without 
which this history would be incomplete : 

Addressed to the Eighteenth Maine Regiment on its departure 
for the seat of war, 1862. 

YOU THOUSAND OF MEN. 

Say, where are you going, you thousand of men ? 
Now one thing is certain, 



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That never, ah never 
This side the deep river, 
This side the dark curtain 
Just fluno- out to screen us, 
Which drops down between us 
And those who've passed over 
'I'hat cold, stormy river, 
No, never again 

Shall this crowd ever meet you, 
Shall this throng- ever greet you 
In a bodily form 

With your hearts beating warm — 
^'ou thousand of men ! 

lUit, thank the Great Giver, 
Though crossing that river 
Your barks may be shattered, 
Your outer garbs tattered — 
Thank God that again 
From the mount you inherit 
You may come back in spirit, 
All you who pass over 
That cold, stormy river — 
You may come back to meet us, 
You may come back to greet us 
With your hearts beating warm 
In a blesseder form- — 

^'ou thousand of men ! 

With the clearest of vision 

I have witnessed the yearning 

Of the troops now returning 

I'Vom the land so elysian ; 

Of the troops who passed over 

That cold, stormy river 

'Mid the roar'and the rattle 

Of a nation in battle — 

So, quickly again 

From the mount you inherit 

Nou must come back to meet us. 

You must come back to greet us, 

^'ou must come back in spirit 

With your hearts beating warm 

In a blissfuller form. 

All you who pass over 

That cold, stormy river — 

I'^rom vou thousand of men ! 



CHAPTER IX. 

HOW WASHINGTON STRUCK l^S FOREST FELLINO AND FORT i'.UII.D- 

ING LISTENING TO SOUNDS OF P.ATILE LEARNING IHE ART 

OF WAR. 

Oar first march from the train in Washington to Fort liaker, 
across the East Branch or Anacostia River, and up the long hill to 
our camping place, was unfortunate for our future. We wore our uni- 
form coats, fiannel shirts, and carried overcoats and blankets, with 
spare clothing in knapsacks. Besides this, every soldier had in his 
knapsack several weighty tokens of affection bestowed upon him by 
mothers, sisters, and friends, which were thought to be needful to 
his comfort. Major Hamlin was in command on this march from 
Washington to Fort Baker. Like the rest of us he had not made 
many long marches on foot, carrying heavy equipments. He rode 
a good horse and so could not himself feel the fatigue which was 
forcing the sweat from the flanks and sides of his excellent animal, 
and causing the perspiration to flow down our backs and limbs most 
mercilessly. Such a march was a bad preparation for our first 
night's slumbers upon the cold, pebbly ground. We moved next to 
Camp Stetson, near P'ort Massachusetts, where many of our men 
appeared on the sick list. There were camping in the vicinity, in 
what was known as the invalid's camp, a large number of men who 
showed in their bronzed and pinched faces the fearful ravages of 
malaria, caused by McClellan's fatal delay around the Chickahominy. 
Before many days we found employment in felling the heavy growth 
in front of the lines, laid out by the engineers for the future formid- 
able defenses around Washington. We were occupied part of the 
time in this work, and some of the time drilling in preparation for 
what was to follow. We had not yet learned the best methods of 
making ourselves comfortable with little, as we did later on, nor 
had we been well instructed in what soldiers might eat and be well, 
or what things they might eat if they wanted to be sick. Cetting 
acclimated and educated in the best ways of living in camp consti- 
tuted no small part of our future education. 



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I )urin- our labors around the fortifications in the vicinity of 
Fort Simnrons, on the 28th and 29th of August, we were listening 
to the roar of the battle around Groveton and Centerville, and on 
the 30th at Bull Run. At about this time we received orders to join 
the army across the river, but for some reason unknown to us we 
were ordered to return. We learned afterward that our services 
would be more needed on the north than on the south side of the 
Potomac. What remained of McClellan's and McDowell's army 
went streaming past us and through our picket lines on the acque- 
duct road and out through Tenally Town and up the pike toward 
Antietam, for Lee was crossing into Maryland. Some of us were 
sent far out to watch the fords of the Potomac. We were given 
our first view of the ravages war made upon the health of soldiers 
campaigning in malarial regions. Some of us who had followed the 
events of the war closely did not fail to perceive how^ weak our army 
was from lack of an able and experienced commander over the 
whole, nor did we fail to notice that political generals and political 
pressure were nearly as fatal to the success of our eastern armies as 
was the army of General Lee. Our respect for "Little Mack," 
as (ieneral McClellan was called, was rapidly waning. We were 
gratified, however, to learn that although relieved from his position 
as general in chief by General Halleck, he still insisted upon going 
with his troops, assumed command of the forces at Antietam, and 
althougii far from his post and tardy there as heretofore, he no 
doubt rendered valuable service in that memorable struggle. As it 
is much easier to find fault than to do valorous deeds, let us give 
(ieneral McClellan credit for what he did do in these last days of 
his usefulness as a general of the United States Army. General 
Malleck had been called to the chief command of the United States 
armies. He had gained some reflected glory frdm the operations of 
Generals Grant and Pope in the west. He no doubt did valorous 
service in his exalted position, but his timorous and vacillating 
methods appeared to some of us to be more of a hindrance than a 
help to the good work others were attempting to do. Self-interest and 
self-glorification appeared to be more of an object with some of our 
generals than to gain glory for the country by defeating its enemies. 
We must remember, however, that if we were much aftlicted by 
many commanders of this sort, our enemies were none the less so. 



BUILDING FORTIFICATIONS. 



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We heard the roar of the battle at Antietam, expecting every 
hour when we should be ordered to leave our post and go to rein- 
force the troops on that field. We soon learned, however, of our 
victory, regretting with the rest of the country that it was not fol- 
lowed up, and settled down to our labor of making the defenses of 
Washington impregnable. 

In looking upon our experiences, and not only ours but upon 
the experiences of all the troops which volunteered for service in 
the Civil War, the writer cannot neglect here to comment upon the 
vast gain that would have accrued to the Union Army had our Regular 
Army been disbanded, its trained officers used for field and staff 
officers in volunteer regiments and its best soldiers as non-commis- 
sioned officers. Thus the trade of the soldier in all its bearings, 
including discipline, would have been sooner learned by our excel- 
lent volunteers. After several moves along the line of our tree- 
felling and fort-building work, we finally brought up at one of the 
most important points in the defenses of Washington, at what was 
called Forts Alexander, Franklin, and Ripley. These were after- 
ward transformed into a great fortification known as Fort Sumner. 
Company K of our Regiment was stationed at Battery Cameron, 
one of the interior defenses under command of Captain Sabine, a 
most studious, progressive, and competent officer. Company E, 
under Capt. W. S. Clark, was at Battery Vermont, covering Chain 
Bridge. Our encampment was upon a place formerly and afterward 
known as Oak Hill. Of the dwellers near by who came to be much 
known to us were the excellent family of Mr. Brooke, proprietor of 
Oak Hill, and not far away the house of Mr. Lodge, from whom the 
boys bought milk and other things, and from whom the officers hired 
horses when they would ride to Washington. Mr. Brooke was a 
most aft'able and agreeable gentleman, of the high type of loyal 
Southerners, who did very much to make our stay agreeable after 
he became acquainted with us. He had two most interesting 
daughters, Maria and Annie, who had, at first, little use or respect 
for Northern Yankees. After finding we were quite human they 
became very friendly and mingled much with the officers and ladies 
of the Regiment who came to dwell among us, and the older of the 
daughters became a great favorite, and was finally adopted as the 
Daughter of the Regiment. Our readers will become better 



f,S THK FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

acquainted with her in our chapter entitled "The Daughter of the 
Regiment." 

With the diligent use of axes in front, with the teams hauling 
timber, with pick and spade, crosscut saw, broadax, and other tools 
which the (iovernment furnished, under the strong and skillful 
hands of the industrious men of this Regiment, Fort Sumner rapidly 
grew into a great stronghold, with ditches, bombproof magazines, 
and many comforts for soldiers. The oflEicers for the most part built 
themselves log houses with tent flies for covers and stone fireplaces 
for heat. We were using our Sibley tents, that most awkward and 
ill-contrived thing ever invented for sheltering soldiers, fifteen men 
to a tent. The cold weather set us shivering and thinking. The non- 
commissioned officers of C'ompany F, thirteen in number, adopted a 
plan of their orderly sergeant and, marking around the bottom of 
their Sibley tent, dug a ditch, set up a stockade of timber clear 
around, six feet above ground, mounted their tent on the top of this 
stockade, substituted a tree for the Sibley pole, built bunks for 
fourteen men, made straw ticks of grain bags, filled them with straw 




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FIELD AND STAFF OF HEAVY ARTILLERY. 99 

drawn from the quartermaster, and were soon sleeping on spring 
beds of their own make with great comfort. They pooled their 
small capital, bought a cook stove, running the smoke pipe through 
the top of their Sibley tent, drew their rations uncooked, made a 
trade with the famous woods cook. Corporal Wing, to cook their 
food while they did his duty in turn, and were shortly living like 
nabobs. This type of comfortable quarters was immediately adopted 
by the whole Regiment. It proved a most effective protection from 
the cold and wet, and a great comfort to the troops during the 
severe winter that followed. 

During our first winter in camp at Fort Sumner much time was 
given to the instruction of the men in all the duties of a soldier in 
squad, company, and battalion drill. We were also trained as 
Heavy ArtillerN'-men, drilling upon the big guns which we were 
mounting as fast as our fortifications were ready, and received some 
practice in firing these guns at targets. Some of our younger offi- 
cers, who had been students before entering the service, went far 
beyond the ordinary drill in their studies of engineering, field works, 
and field fortifications, permanent earth works, ordnance and gunnery, 
theory of projectiles and artillery practice, studies which made them 
useful in their after service and especially so during the siege of 
Petersburg. 

Our work of making the fortifications strong and impregnable 
was constantly progressing meanwhile. During the winter of 1863, 
the Eighteenth Maine Infantry was changed into heavy artillery 
and designated as the First Maine Heavy Artillery, and orders were 
issued to have it filled up to twelve companies of one hundred and 
fifty men each, instead of ten companies of one hundred men each. 
Our organization now was as follows : 

Field and Staff : one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, three 
majors, with one captain and two first and two second lieutenants 
to each company. There is no regimental quartermaster or adjutant 
with an artillery organization, but some first lieutenant of the line 
is detailed for special service in these capacities. They are usually 
selected on account of their fitness for such staff positions. All 
officers and men of the Heavy Artillery organization are or should 
be prepared to serve as infantry or heavy artillery, that is, serving 
the guns in fortifications and siege works, and it is also desirable 
that they be well trained in the light artillery or field service. 

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jQQ THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

During the spring and summer of 1863 we received a large 
amount of ''instruction in drilling as a brigade in conjunction with 
the 7th and 9th New York Heavy Artillery. Our drill place was 
usually Fort Simmons, a point at about the center of the line held 
by the ist Brigade, ist Division, 22d Army Corps. 

Many of our Regiment will doubtless remember the pretty 
maneuvers of Captain Emil Schubert's 9th New York Light Battery 
which were stationed for many months with our brigade. Probably 




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most of our members of the old Eighteenth Maine \\ill remember 
how quickly the fifty recruits who came to our company developed 
into good soldiers, by serving with well-trained and disciplined 
troops and coming under the care and instruction of competent, 
well-informed officers. Certainly none of our field officers can 
forget how much more quickly the new companies, L and M, devel- 
oped into good soldiers under their trained officers than did any 
of the original companies under officers with no more training at 
the start than the men had. What was true of our Regiment was 
true of all the other regiments which came out as infantry and was 
afterward changed to Heavy Artillery and filled up. It is an old 
saying that soldiers must growl. Every company had its chief 
growler, with several other growlers who served as sort of staff to 
the chief. These and not a few of the more valorous officers com- 
plained grievously of being kept so long in the defenses of Wash- 
ington, digging, building, and drilling. They expressed a great 
desire to be sent to the front where they could mow down the rebels 
in heaps. They had plenty of opportunity later. I believe the 
same growlers growled still more vigorously at the front, but they 
changed their growl while their hearts longed for still more work in 
the defenses. The writer noticed that skill in using the spade and 
the axe were valuable acomplishments in the field and in the siege 
of Petersburg. 

During the winter of 1863 some of our original captains, who 
did not seem well fitted for military life, resigned and were replaced 
usually by their first lieutenants, who were better adapted for this 
kind of service. As the writer remembers them, these captains were 
all worthy men of good ability and excellent character. No doubt 
they would have proved as brave in the presence of an enemy as 
others who remained. Very many officers of all grades had to be 
dropped for the general good of the service and for the same reason. 
Those of us who were watching the operations in the field at large 
were much mortified and grieved at the disastrous campaign of 
General Burnside around Fredericksburg. 

It seemed to some of us that the Army of the Potomac had too 
many commanders and too much politics. The aftair between 
Burnside and several of his generals made it appear that there 
should be a school for the discipline of generals as well as soldiers ; 



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that had they devoted as much thought to defeating the enemy as 
thev did to defeating each other our war would have ended sooner. 
The whole army in the east believed in General Hooker. The 
disastrous results of his Chancellorsville campaign filled us with 
many doubts of his abilities as a commander of large bodies of 
troops. While he was moving into Pennsylvania some of us feared 
that we might have opportunity to serve our country right where 
we were in the defenses of Washington before the campaign ended. 
The result of the battle of Gettysburg relieved our anxiety and 
cheered the whole country. We received the news of the surrender 
of Vicksburg and of Lee's defeat at Gettysburg by General Meade 
at about the same time. I think every soldier in the eastern army 
hoped that the time was near when all the armies would be placed 
under an efficient commander and that we might have opportunity 
to help finish the struggle. We were delighted when we learned 
that General Grant had been promoted to lieutenant general and 
given the command of all the United States armies. We were con- 
vinced then that the time had passed when General Lee could 
concentrate his troops first upon one detachment and then another 
of our army, defeating them in detail. We all had confidence that 
the man had appeared who had the capacity not only to command 
a division or corps, but who could command a large army and even 
several armies. 




CHAPTER X. 

DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT — A FAIR REBEL A ITITUDE OF 

SOUTHERN SOCIETY TO YANKEES. 

Adioining our encampment toward Washington, and extending 
from the road passing northeast of us to Georgetown and the Poto- 
mac, was the plantation home of Edmund H. Brooke, chief clerk in 
the office of paymaster general, and afterward major and paymaster 
in the Regular Army until his death in Detroit in 1890. 

He had been a slave owner, and had suffered severe loss by his 
slaves taking sudden leave, after destroying much of his property. 
He was a Southern gentleman of rare refinement and culture, grown 
amidst Southern institutions. His active mind and affable temper- 
ament had been impressed by long years of service in a department 
of the Government where, as in all other departments at Washing- 
ton, Southern influence had long predominated. But above all 
he was a gentleman, loyal and discreet. Whatever his sentiment at 
the start, he plainly foresaw that the end of slavery must come with 
victory for the North, or the end of American Eree Cxovernment 
come with victory for the South. He loved his whole country more 
than any institution : hence his loyalty. 

His wife had gone to her reward, leaving to our friend two 
daughters, Maria and Annie. Since the loss of the mother, the 
children had been left much to the care of servants, as father must 
be at his post in the department during each day. 



I04 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Maria Brooke, the subject of this chapter, was at the time of 
our coming a young lady of eighteen years. She had inherited the 
strong personality and courtly graces of her father, and combined 
with them the womanly tenderness of a devout mother, whose mem- 
ory was held in saintly reverence by those who had known her. 

From a little girl she had ridden with her father to and from 
school daily, mostly on horseback, and was a fearless, dashing rider. 
Since her mother's death she had been father's daughter, house- 
keeper, and constant companion. She was self-reliant and resource- 
ful. She had been reared in Southern society, and believed in 
slavery as a divine institution. She was fully convinced that all this 
fuss and war, this loss and suffering, and this excitement, was due 
to the wild imaginings, perverse distractions, and evil intent of 
Northern Yankees. She, like most young ladies in the South, not 
only believed all this and many more awful things about the Yankees 
and their cause, but she believed in asserting herself and in defend- 
ing her opinions and her sacred rights. 

Thus inspired, she induced her father to instruct her in the use 
of firearms. She attained the exact skill of which refined woman is 
capable. Her house became a veritable small armory. In contem- 
plation of the outrageous conduct of the hated Yankee hordes to 
come, she imagined their blood drawn by her resentful bullets, 
hardened her heart, steeled her resolution, and steadied her nerves 
for any emergency. 

1 )utch troops came at first. They committed some depreda- 
tions. Fruit and vegetables went without gathering; chickens went 
out calling late at night and never came back ; turkeys strayed 
away to roost and got lost. Miss Brooke was not the girl to cry 
about such things. She would let them know she was not afraid 
of them. She rode fearlessly and furiously out and in past their 
parades and inspections. Who of us that ever saw her flying past, 
looking like a \'enus grown to a horse, would find fault with a 
Dutch officer for tilting his sword and turning his head, or the 
Dutch line for dropping arms and wavering at such a dash of femi- 
nine resentment? 

One of them, with more audacity than discretion, concluded to 
speak to her. He was roaming by, Maria was feeding a pretty flock 
nf turkeys in a side yard. The Dutch-Yankee officer approached 



THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. 



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her from behind. " Goo moggin ! goo moggin ! " " Sir! " Dutchy 
fairly jumped his boots clear oft the ground, adjusted his equipoise, 
and stood at attention, touching his hat. She went on feeding her 
birds. "Goo moggin, miss 1 " "Sir! Sir!" Dutchy started and 
began to perspire, but tried again. "I didn't mean dot." "What 
do you mean, sir ? " demanded Maria. " Zeider Zee, what a gale ! " 
grunted Dutchy, struggling for breath. "Say! yer don't want ter 
sell one er dem turkeys, hey?" "I have no turkeys to sell, sir." 
" Wus yer fadder in der house.'' How many slaves did he own?" 
"That is none of your business, sir. Move out quick! " sbe com- 
manded. Dutchy .retreated double-quick to the road and faced for 
camp, exclaiming: " Mein Got! how I schweat ! I never go dere 
no more. I drudder eat crow, turkey buzzard, enyting. I don't 
want no turkey ! " 

One rainy afternoon came a large new regiment, nine compa- 
nies, and pitched their cone-shaped, tall Sibley tents. A large field 
of the Oak Hill Farm was taken for a drill ground. Every stump, 
stone, and bubble was cleaned off. This field was made smooth. 
They had a good band and a drum corps. P^oth practiced daily in 
the woods, at the rear of the Brooke home, toward the river. To 
Maria the Dutch Yankees had been vexatious. These real, tall, 
native-born, full-bred Yanks from way up in Maine must be unbear- 
able. But Father Brooke called at camp to bespeak the good will 
of the officers, was kindly assured, and field and stafi^ returned his 
call ; so did the line officers. Mr. Brooke and little Annie were the 
entertainers at first. They were getting on wonderfully well and 
liked the newcomers, but Maria was standing by her principles, 
keeping her firearms loaded and her powder dry. 

Still she was just aching to see what those horrid ]\Ianiacs from 
Maine were like. She slyly peeked at the officers riding by, and 
listened (out of sight) to the enjoyment papa and Annie were having 
with them on the veranda. She fairly went into ecstacies over the 
music of the band, which soon came to serenade her, when papa 
and lots of officers were filling veranda and grounds. She hummed 
their patriotic airs, wept over the plaintive strains of "Tenting 
To-night," sang, whistled, and danced to " Dixie Land." But she 
had loaded arms she must fire, and she did. She fairly pelted them 
with delicate attentions, sweetmeats, and good things. She attended 



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Sunday service and worshiped with them. She was present at all 
parades where music was a feature, for music was her passion. It 
was part of her existence. She sang by day, working or playing. 
fler father said she sang in her sleep. 

'['here were many fine players and singers in the Regiment. 
She soon came to know them. The wife of Colonel Chaplin, wife 
and daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Talbot, and wife and daughters 
of Chaplain Leonard came to camp, and Miss Brooke was much 
with them, especially the beautiful daughter of our chaplain. Miss 
Brooke was an accomplished horsewoman. All the officers' fine 
horses were at her service. The most mettlesome of these, Quarter- 
master Pitcher's black 'M\ell," Colonel Chaplin's magnificent roan, 
"Warrior," and the Adjutant's stripe-faced "Dick," were her favor- 
ites. Major Hamlin's vicious " Beauregard" was alone forbidden. 
So she captured the Maine Regiment, wretches, horrid Yankees, and 
settled herself gracefully to keep her prisoners. She rode in and 
out alone, or among them in parties, generally riding on ahead with 
a gay company of officers and wives for her staff. 

In such a way this Yankee hater enjoyed her captives. She 
ate with them, sang and danced with them; she larked and wor- 
shiped with them. She nursed and comforted their sick and wept 
over their suffering and dying, and became so much a part of their 
daily life that they elected her the "Daughter of the Regiment." 

'I'o recall the happy life this young typical female rebel enjoyed 
among us, comrades must remember her activity. The picture does 
her no justice. It does not make her look pert and jaunty enough, 
delicate and blushing, bashful and retiring, brave and audacious 
enough. It would require the kinetoscope to bring her out in 
life, — this fair young miss, blushing maiden, yet dignified, womanly 
matron, presiding in her father's home. Rollicking romp on foot or 
horseback among her young companions, delightful entertainer of 
friends, supercilious scorner of whomsoever she disliked, tender- 
hearted nurse to the sick, motherly woman to the helpless and 
needy, and spiteful tormentor to the shiftless; attracting suitors, 
yet spurning softness and repelling audacity in any. She is a loyal 
Unionist now. She married Mr. Spencer Watkins, and at this writ- 
ing is still living in Washington. Like the rest of us, time has been 
speeding her along. Children have grown to maturity and married, 



THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. I07 

but she Still retains the sprightliness and graces of her youth. She 
writes of her love for the First Maine as one of the sweetest memo- 
ries of her young life. She writes one story, illustrative of her 
audacity. 

One of our captains was much enamored with Miss Leonard, 
the chaplain's beautiful daughter, the elder girl with mother in our 
group. The captain was very precise and immaculate in his per- 
sonal appearance. He was brigade officer of the day and, riding 
up to camp from Chain Bridge, had dismounted to water his horse, 
where the creek crossed our military road leading to the fort. Miss 
Brooke was out riding. She saw the captain, holding his rein on 
the opposite side, as she rode down toward the creek. Seized with 
an impulse to spatter him, she gave rein to her horse and dashed 
across the brook at full gallop. The captain's plight can be imag- 
ined. The story is told regretfully by her, as he paid his full part 
for his country with his life at Petersburg, the following June. 




MRS. SPENCER WATKINS 



CHAPTER XI. 



FROM WASHINGTON TO PETERSBURG BATTLES OF SPOTTSYLVANIA, 

MILFORD STATION, NORTH ANNA, TOTOPOTOMOY, COLD HARBOR 
CROSSIN(i THE JAMES THREE DAYS' BATTLE THE BLOOD- 
IEST BATTLE IN HISTORY GENERAL WALKER'S ACCOUNT OF 

IHE TRAGEDY. 

I)urin<; the latter part of April, 1864, some of us who were 
serving in staff capacities knew that we should not have long to 
wait for a call to active service. Each of the regimental commanders 
had been forewarned to get his command ready to move at short 
notice. A request from General Grant to his chief of staff at Wash- 
ington, to have General Augur with 10,000 of his best troops from 
the defenses of Washington join him at once, sent hurry orders to 
all regiments in the line about the defenses of Washington and 
brought bustle and hurry to all camps. Disposing of all extra cloth- 
ing and baggage was the business of the first day. The march of 
one after the other of these splendid regiments, each 1,800 strong, 
with full complements of officers, splendidly equipped, trained like 
regulars, was a sight which called throngs of spectators to witness 
their passing. 

As fast as steamers could be sup- 
plied, regiment after regiment went on 
board and was speedily transferred 
to Belle Plain Landing. Here they 
were grouped together into brigades 
all under the command of (ien. R. O. 
Tyler. Colonel Morris, formerly a 
regular army officer, commanded our 
brigade, composed of the First Maine 
Heavy Artillery and his own, 7th New 
N'ork. Wc marched through Freder- 
icksburg, out over the Wilderness 
battlefield, and were joined to the 

second army corps, commanded by ^^■^■'- ^^*'^- ^- ^^- TYLER, 

4tli ] )i vision, 2d Army Corps- 




ARRIVAL ON THE BATTLEFIELD. 1 09 

General Hancock. We began meeting ambulances loaded with 
wounded men, some on foot with their arms in slings and heads 
bandaged, long before we arrived at a position just in rear of our 
other divisions then in the front line. 

We arrived upon the battlefield late at night and listened to the 
popping of the pickets on the advanced lines during our slumbers 
among the pines. Early the next morning we were moved around 
to a position close in the rear of a part of the sixth and the right of 
our own second corps, where an immediate attack was expected. 
The artillery fire from both sides was very heavy in our front, with 
much infantry firing. Shells and fragments of shells from the 
enemy's guns were passing over our heads, much too low down in 
many cases to be appreciated. While lying there we had many 
narrow escapes, but were getting our nerves steadied to situations 
we should frequently face in the future. Next day we were moved 
to another position farther to our right and directly in front of a 
farm road over which troops were moving to our left. They seemed 
to be passing us nearly all night. They were a part of the fifth 
corps, under General Warren, moving toward the left. In the morn- 
ing we were moved around to a position southeast of the Fredericks- 
burg road and not far from army headquarters. Our brigade was 
left in two openings, not far apart and out of sight of the enemy, to 
cover the withdrawal of the second corps, which had moved out 
early in the morning on its way to Guinea's and Milford Station and 
was then in position in the rear of Warren's fifth corps. The other 
brigades of our fourth division, under General Tyler, had also 
moved toward the left. General Lee, believing that our right had 
been uncovered, moved Ewell's and a part of Hill's corps across 
the Ny River and attempted to get upon our rear to capture our 
supply trains. 

In the early part of the afternoon of the 19th one of the aids 
of our brigade, Lieutenant Shaw, discovered that our supply trains, 
which were ordered to go by the Massaponax Church road, were 
moving down on the Spottsylvania Courthouse road directly toward 
the enemy's lines and that Confederate troops were moving toward 
this road from the direction of the Landrum and Stevens place. He 
immediately gave notice to the brigade commander. The brigade 
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<;uarcl, and went on the double-quick to the position where the 
enemy were already attacking the wagon trains near the Harris 
farm. Finding the enemy in heavy force on both sides of the train 
and receiving their fire from a piece of woods to our left as we were 
moving, the yth New \'ork, then leading, were ordered by the left 
riank and to charge the woods immediately. The First Maine were 
ordered to pass by their rear, moving a little to the right through 
the wagon train, and were then ordered to charge at once down on 
both sides of the road. This they did in fine style, sweeping the 
Confederates away from the train, recovering what they had taken, 
and driving them speedily back through the woods, swinging around 
toward the left and following their column as they retreated across 
an opening and through a point of woods extending down into a 
small creek, where we were halted, with the 7th New York far on 
our left hotly engaged. Colonel Morris, commanding the brigade, 
was with the left, leaving his aid, Lieutenant Shaw, in charge of the 
right. 

Confederate troops were seen moving to our right with the evi- 
dent intention of overlapping and attacking our right flank. Upon 
notice from our aid, some troops belonging to our fourth division, 
which had just come up beyond the woods, were put in on our right 
and directed to advance up to the edge of the opening, which they 
did promptly and in good order. Word was sent speedily to the 
commander of the colored troops, requesting that he make a display 
of force far out from the train on the Fredericksburg pike, and 
about the same time orders were sent from army headquarters for 
(ieneral Ferrero, commanding the colored division, to move well 
out and make a stout resistance should the enemy detach beyond 
our right and attack him for the purpose of getting the trains. 
There was still an opening between the right of our line thus formed 
and the troops moving toward our brigade along the Fredericksburg 
pike. This weakness was speedily remedied by the prompt action 
of Ceneral Hancock in hastening Birney's division out to the right 
of 'I'yler's line and posting Gibbon's division as a reserve. Our 
vigorous attack in the early part of the afternoon and the stubborn 
tenacity with which the "raw troops," as we were called, held on to 
their ground against Ewell's whole corps gave the Confederates a 
sudden check and forced them back, until the timely arrival of Han- 
cock's veteran troops completed their defeat. 



THE BURIAL OF OUR FIRST DEAD. Ill 

Warren was ordered to get on Ewell's flank and in his rear and 
cut him off from his intrenchments, but his efforts were so feeble 
that, under cover of the night, Ewell got back with a loss of a few 
hundred prisoners besides his killed and wounded, which were 
many. We were engaged until after dark, with heavy loss. 

(jcneral Grant in his Memoirs, in speaking of this attack by 
EwelTs corps, says: "These artillery troops fought with the steadi- 
ness of veterans. The impression made upon the old organizations 
of the army established the reputation of all these new arrivals as 
well-disciplined veterans worthy to be classed with an equal number 
of regulars." It is unquestionably true that had we been engaged 
in several less encounters and in connection with old troops we 
should have sooner become accustomed to the scattering, covering, 
and crawling-up style of the field, instead of using more formal style 
of the books in fighting and our losses would have been much less, 
while our effectiveness would have been increased. 

It must be remembered in this connection that the progress of 
our war developed many new methods in fighting. Some of these 
methods had been learned from the skulking and hiding tactics of 
the Indians, fighting out of sight. Their rough riding and dis- 
mounted fighting had been used by our cavalry. The long, rapid 
flanking movements of our war were much used by the Germans in 
the Franco-Prussian W^ar greatly to their advantage. General Von 
Moltke, the Prussian commander, did not hesitate to adopt Grant's 
tactics. We had not yet fully learned the habit of the old troops in 
digging themselves into a hole in the ground the minute they stopped 
in the presence of an enemy. We were not long in adopting this 
method also. We could outdig the diggers in getting into our holes 
by the time we reached Milford Station. 

It was a great sorrow to some of us to perform for the first 
time the duty of burying the dead upon the battlefield. When they 
had been brought together, we saw among them the upturned and 
bloody faces of many young and worthy oflicers, and men who were 
our friends and whose friends at home we knew. We had read and 
heard much of these sad experiences, but until now we had actually 
known nothing of the anguish we were to experience when we gave 
to our own comrades the rude burial in the long trench upon the 
battlefield. We could only cover their faces tenderly and faithfully 



J , , THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

mark, as best we could, their names, regiment, and company at their 
heads. Two of our most worthy captains, Parker and Pattengall, 
were laid at the head of this column of the dead. The next year it 
became the duty of this waiter to make arrangements for Dr. Lincoln 
and Adjutant Gatchell to go from Fort Baker to Spottsylvania to 
procure the bodies of these two officers and restore them to their 
friends in Maine. 

On the night of the 20th we moved with the second corps by 
way of Guinea's on to Milford Station through Bowling Green. We 
advanced across a broad strip of bottom ground up to high and 
wooded ground not far from the railroad station and very near the 
road over which General Lee must pass. In throwing out a heavy 
skirmish line here we encountered the head of Pickett's division on 
its way to meet and reinforce General Lee, who was moving rapidly 
toward Richmond. In the conflict with this body of troops we lost 
some men and the affair became known as the Battle of Milford 
Station. Lee now had a superb opportunity from the nature of our 
position either to attack Wright and Burnside alone, who were back 
at Spottsylvania keeping up the appearance of an intended assault, 
or to mass his own forces with Pickett's reinforcements and attack 
Hancock alone before the other corps could reach him. He did 
not avail himself of either opportunity. He never afterward had so 
good a chance to. deal the Army of the Potomac a staggering blow. 
On the night of the 21st Burnside with his ninth corps followed by 
Wright with the sixth corps moved out from Spottsylvania along the 
telegraph road, and by the morning of the 2 2d were at Guinea's 
Station. Warren moved around to Harris's store west of Milford. 
Wright remained at Guinea's and Burnside moved on to New Bethel 
Church. 

On the 23d of May the second corps moved out from Milford 
Station around to the wooden bridge which spans the North Anna 
River, just west of where the Fredericksburg and Richmond Rail- 
road crosses. Two brigades, Egan's and Pierce's, charged on the 
right and left of the road, and carried the bridge so quickly that the 
enemy, retreating over it hastily, had many men crowded into the 
river, and some of them w^ere drowned. Our brigade supported 
this movement. 

On the 24th a portion of our corps crossed to the south side of 
the river and formed a line facing southwest. The Richmond and 



A CRITICAL SITUATION. 



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CHKSTEKFiELJ) BKIJHtE, ACROSS NORTH ANNA RIVER 



Fredericksburg Railroad in our rear was taken possession of and 
destroyed as far as possible. Lee now had his entire army south of 
the North x^nna River, with his left thrown back from Oxford 
Ford on the North Anna to New Market on the Little River, cross- 
ing the Virginia Central Railroad near Anderson's Station. Facing 
this portion of his line was Warren's fifth corps with one division 
of the ninth corps supporting and Wright's sixth corps on Warren's 
right, with their right flank thrown back to a line nearly parallel 
with the two rivers. Lee's main line extended from Oxford Ford 
on the North Anna to Hanover Junction, and around to Hayes 
Farm and Maurice's Bridge on the North Anna below. Hancock's 
corps, forming the left wing of the army, was on this point of land 
between Lee's army and the North Anna River, with six miles 
separating the wings of the Union Army covered by only a single 
division. To get from one wing of the National Army to the other 
the river would have to be crossed twice. Lee was rapidly receiving 
reinforcements. Under a less skillful commander than General 
Grant, the situation of our army might have been critical at this 



114 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



point. Our base of supplies had been changed from the York River 
to Whitehouse on the Pamunkey, and to this point all supply trains 
not with the army had been moved. Lee could reinforce any part 
of his line from all points in a short march, or could have concen- 
trated the whole of it on either wing of our army. He did not avail 
himself of this grand opportunity to cripple one wing or the other 
of the Union Army. 

Before our withdrawal (xeneral Lee had been reinforced largely. 
Pickett with a full' division from Richmond was up. Hoke had 
come from North Carolina wdth a brigade. Breckenridge had 
arrived, making his reinforcements altogether not less than 15,000 
men. Lee would not come out of his intrenchments to fight even 
under these favorable conditions. 

Nothing could now induce General Lee to give battle in the 
open. As nothing more could be done with the army in its present 
position, (General Grant began the delicate and skillful performance 
of withdrawing his army from the presence of the enemy on the 
south side of the North Anna. Trains and spare artillery were 




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DKSTKOVIXC KAILKOAI) HKllKiK, XOUTH ANNA RIVER. 



A RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE. II5 

moved to Hanover Town. Wilson's cavalry was moved from the 
extreme left to the extreme right of our army, crossed the North 
Anna, marched past our right flank as far as Little River, and made 
a feint as though it were his intention to attack Lee's left. While 
this was going on all the troops except our second corps were with- 
drawn and passed off to the left, following Sheridan's cavalry, which 
had again crossed the river at Taylor's and Little Page's fords. 
As soon as Warren's and Wright's corps had passed by the rear of 
Burnside's and Hancock's we were withdrawn, leaving pickets out 
confronting the enemy. Wilson's cavalry followed last, taking in 
all the pickets and watching the fords until everything had passed, 
then taking up the pontoons and all other bridges they became the 
rear guard of the army. 

On the 29th all three corps were making a reconnaissance in 
force toward Totopotomoy Creek. On the 30th our corps reached 
the Totopotomoy and found the enemy strongly fortified. The sixth 
corps was on our right with Warren at Huntley's Corners and the 
ninth corps on our left. Sheridan's cavalry was watching the left 
toward Cold Harbor. On the 31st Sheridan's cavalry had advanced 
to Old Cold Harbor. This place seemed to be of great importance 
to the enemy and they put up a desperate fight to hold it. 

Wright's sixth corps moved past our line during the night on 
its way to reinforce Sheridan. It was expected that Gen. "Baldy" 
Smith, who was marching up from Whitehouse, would meet Sheridan 
early on the morning of the ist, but by some blunder he did not 
reach his destination until late in the afternoon. Soon after light 
on the I St of June the Confederate General Anderson's corps was 
seen moving toward the left, along the front of the fifth corps. 
General Warren used his artillery upon them, but was so long get- 
ting ready for an attack that the enemy got by. By six o'clock in 
the afternoon of the ist we heard heavy firing on our left, which 
proved to be the corps of Generals Wright and Smith making an 
assault which resulted in the capture and holding of the first line of 
rifle pits of the enemy at Cold Harbor. While this was going on, the 
enemy charged heavily on the fifth corps to the right of us, at the 
same time attacking us and Burnside's corps on our left. This was 
probably intended as a diversion to relieve Anderson, who was being 
pressed by Generals Wright and Smith. During the night of the 



J, 5 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

I St we were moved from our place in the line and went into position 
at the left of the sixth corps at Cold Harbor. The ninth corps 
moved past us to Bethesda Church. The enemy made several 
attacks on Warren and Ikirnside, w^hile they were withdrawing from 
their front on the right and lost some prisoners. During the same 
ni<dit (Jeneral Lee's forces were moving to make his line correspond 
to the new National lines. His line now extended from the Toto- 
potomoy to New Cold Harbor. The National lines extended from 
Bethesda Church by Old Cold Harbor to the Chickahominy, with a 
division of cavalry watching our right. On the morning of the 3d 
an attack was ordered on the enemy's lines. The loss was severe 
and not much more was accomplished than to get our whole army 
on one line. During that night the enemy withdrew from our right 
without burying their dead. As little more could be done here, 
General Crant had by this time determined to make his next move 
to the south side of the James River, a distance of more than fifty 
miles. The Chickahominy River, with its marshes and heavy tim- 
bers, over which all bridges had been destroyed, had to be crossed. 
Lee had a shorter route and better roads over which to reach and 
attack Ikitler at Drury's Bluff, between the James and Appomattox, 
before Ceneral Grant could arrive. General Hunter was approach- 
ing Lynchburg from the Shenandoah Valley. General Lee might, if 
he saw fit, detach part of his army to destroy General Hunter's 
force. General Grant had to depend upon his skill in keeping the 
Confederate commander guessing. For this purpose General Sheri- 
dan was sent with two divisions of cavalry to break up the Virginia 
Central Railroad, the James River Canal, meet General Hunter near 
Lynchburg and bring him back with him. This canal and the 
Virginia Central Road were of great value to the enemy, furnishing 
and carrying most of the supplies to the army of Northern Virginia 
and to the people of Richmond. 

The ninth corps was moved from the left to nearer our position 
and the sixth was moved down along the Chickahominy, extending 
to Bottom's Bridge. On the 8th the line occupied by these advanced 
troops was fortified along a bank overlapping the Chickahominy, 
under which the army could move by. All the pontoon bridge mate- 
rial from Washington had been ordered to City Point on the James 
River. All the railroad iron and equipments from the Old York 



CROSSING THE JAMES RIVER. II7 

River Railroad had been ordered shipped to City Point. On the 
nth we learned through Richmond papers that Generals Crook and 
Averill had united and were moving east. This, with the news of 
Hunter's successful engagement near Staunton and the knowledge 
that Sheridan had left with two divisions of cavalry, must have 
looked threatening to Lee's communications and his supplies. He 
lost no time in sending much of his cavalry after Sheridan. Early, 
with Ewell's entire corps, was sent to the Shenandoah Valley. Peo- 
ple from outside began to pour into Richmond to eat up what little 
food was there. Consternation and fear now reigned in the capital 
city of the Confederacy. On the 12th General Smith was ordered 
to move to Whitehouse without stopping, to take transports around 
by way of James River and reinforce General Butler at Bermuda 
Hundred and City Point, leaving his trains and artillery to go across 
country with the rest of us. As soon as Warren's corps was across 
the Chickahominy River it marched out and joined the cavalry in 
holding the roads from Richmond while the rest of the army passed 
in their rear. 

During the night of the 13th our corps reached Charles City 
Courthouse on the James River. Very few of us knew much about 
where we were going during our march from Cold Harbor to Charles 
City Courthouse. We were a little surprised, therefore, when we 
heard the tooting whistles of the steamers lying in the James River 
and saw the engineer corps busily constructing pontoon bridges to 
be used in crossing the river. Anything, however, was relief to us, 
for we had been fighting days and marching nights through woods, 
plantation roads, swamps, and thickets, until the sight of the open 
country around the James was a delight to us. 

These new revelations and new scenes, together with the cheer- 
ing news we were hearing from the Shenandoah Valley and from 
General Sherman in the west, made us all feel that we had certainly 
got the best of the Confederacy, were surely drawing near their 
capital, and that it was only a question of time and perseverance 
when the so-called Confederate States of America would be no more. 
Surely many of us felt, while we were preparing to cross the James 
River, that we were shutting the sliding door of hope upon Lee's 
army and could starve or beat him out in a shorter or longer time. 

General Smith, who had been sent from Cold Harbor by way 
of Whitehouse on transports down the York and up the James 



,,S THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Ri\er. reached Bermuda Hundred on the evening of the 14th. His 
troops had been resting on the transports and were fresh and well fed. 

During the T4th General Grant had visited General Butler at 
Bermuda Hundred. Previous to this General Butler had sent a 
small force, under Gilmore and Kautz, against Petersburg. They 
advanced within two or three miles of Petersburg. General Kautz 
on the left had actually entered the city, and had the infantry col- 
umn under Gilmore pushed to the front they might have held it until 
reinforced. Now on the 14th, five days later, the attempt to capture 
Petersburg was renewed. On his visit to General Butler, General 
Grant directed that the eighteenth corps, under General Smith, in 
conjunction with Gilmore and Kautz, make another attempt on 
Petersburg. He was satisfied that such an attempt, if vigorously 
made, would be successful, and that we should be in possession of 
Petersburg within three days. The troops marched in three columns, 
with Kautz's cavalry well in the left, threatening the Petersburg and 
Norfolk Railway. Brooke led the center and Martindale the right. 
General Hinks with his negro brigade carried the advanced rifle pits 
and captured two guns. The troops were inspired with prospect 
of easy victory. A reconnaissance revealed a strong line of works 
on their front, the guns of which swept the ditches and ravines 
which cut valleys in various directions. General Smith paused. He 
did not then know how few were the soldiers behind the works he 
was facing, and it was nearly night before his caution would allow 
him to proceed. Then a part of his troops, forming a heavy skirmish 
line, pressed forward and drove the Confederates from this formid- 
able line of works. Still farther on they captured a powerful salient, 
four redoubts, and a second line of intrenchments, fifteen guns and 
three hundred prisoners. 

During the day and night of the 14th the crossing progressed, 
our corps in advance using both bridge and boats. We learned that 
we were in the vicinity of Fort Powhattan. We found ourselves of 
the second corps on the morning of the 15th on the south side of 
the James, waiting for rations that were to come from General But- 
ler's command. We waited in vain, however, for they did not come. 

Hurnside came from his position at Cold Harbor by way of 
Jones's Bridge, followed by the sixth corps. Ferrero's colored 
division, with the supply trains, moved farther east by Window 



THE ADVANCE ON PETERSBURG. II9 

Shades and Cole's Ferry. The cavalry that had been watching our 
right wing at Cold Harbor was now covering the rear of the army 
and its trains. It is always a hard thing to wait for breakfast when 
you are hungry even if you are not very tired, but weary as the 
second corps troops were after their long campaign and last long, 
tedious march, it seemed harder to wait for rations that did not 
come when we knew they were so near; but instead of taking break- 
fast we took another long march. We have noticed that General 
Smith with his corps had been sent from Cold Harbor by way of 
Whitehouse on transports to General Butler at City Point. Orders 
had been sent through General Meade for our second corps to pro- 
ceed at once upon receiving rations to reinforce General Smith, 
thus making the force large enough at Petersburg to hold it against 
all arrivals which the Confederate commander could send against us. 
General Hancock did not receive his orders through General Meade, 
but received word from General Smith to come on. General Han- 
cock promptly moved our corps to the vicinity of Petersburg by way 
of Prince George Courthouse road. 

General Hancock, having received no orders to seize Peters- 
burg, proffered any assistance to General Smith, waiving rank. 
Smith's request was that the second corps relieve his troops in the 
trenches. General Smith decided to hold on where he was instead 
of advancing into Petersburg. The troops were ordered to rest 
upon their arms within the works just occupied, so during the calm 
hours that succeeded, the nearly full moon shining brightly until 
past midnight, we reposed, while nearly the whole of Lee's army was 
crossing the James to the south front of Richmond, and troops with 
artillery were streaming down toward Petersburg and filing into 
the lines around it. There in a few hours these Confederate troops 
had worked wonders. When General Smith paused on the night of 
the 15th there were some works with but few inferior troops between 
him and Petersburg. Now, on the morning of the i6th, we saw the 
startling apparition of a new line of Confederate works between us 
and the city, and a cloud of gray veterans deployed in battle order 
behind them. The prize General Grant so much coveted was lost. 
The troops were weary, but they were ready to make that extra 
march to get into Petersburg that night. 

Some of our staff officers, who had been on the advanced lines 
and beyond, knew that the way to Petersburg was open and easy 



I20 THE FfRST ^FAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

and so reported, but their reports were treated as idle romance and 
our opportunity was lost. Whoever was responsible for the tardi- 
ness, it has been evident from that day that this delay lost us the 
opportunity to close the war then and there, and that its conse- 
quences brought us much hard fighting on the i6th, 17th, and i8th, 
and a costly siege for ten months, and another campaign with a 
total loss of 100,000 men before the war could close. 

Had Petersburg been captured and held on the night of the 
i:;tii, Lee's army, cut off from all its sources of supplies, must have 
come out of his intrenchments and fought the final and decisive 
battle of the war, or would have been shut up there to be starved 
into a speedy surrender. 

By the i6th the sixth and ninth corps had crossed the James 
and were ready to reinforce the troops already around Petersburg. 
That delay of twelve hours, wise or unwise, was the turning point 
in this campaign and was against us. 

Now on the morning of the 16th of June a large portion of 
Lee's army were in Petersburg and within the lines in front of us 
or were on their way near by. General Grant, who had been at the 
front, ordered (General Meade to post his army as quickly as possible, 
and to open on the Confederate lines by six o'clock. Our second 
corps, commanded by Birney, stormed and carried the works upon 
the ridge in front, but at a fearful cost. Burnside could make no 
impression on the lines in his front during the night, but Porter's 
division of that corps, in a charge on the following morning, carried 
the lines and captured four guns, advanced within a mile and a half 
of the city and iield a position from which shells could be thrown 
into the town. The Confederates attacked Burnside's front during 
the night and drove his troops back with great loss. 

On the morning of the 17th our second corps and the ninth 
renewed the attack upon the works before Petersburg, our part 
being the capture of the hill at the Hare house, upon which Fort 
Steadman was afterward built. In the afternoon the Confederates 
attacked the ninth corps and General Barlow's division of the second. 
Several times during the day desperate but unsuccessful attempts 
were made by the Confederates to capture what had been seized, 
and that night in heavy force they drove back a portion of the 
ninth corps. 




TiiK I'l.ANK Road in which the FiRsr Maine Formed and out c 



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HIGH THE Regiment Sprang to the Fatal Charge, June i8, 1864. 



CONFEDERATES POST A NEW LINE. 12 1 

While these events were transpiring on the south side of the 
Appomattox, the Confederates, fearing for the safety of Petersburg, 
had drawn away many troops in front of Butler's command at 
Drury's Bluff. That General promptly advanced under orders 
from General Grant and captured the Richmond and Petersburg 
Railroad and attempted to destroy it, but on account of some delay 
by the troops who were appointed to reinforce him his advance was 
attacked by Pickett's division and driven back into the intrench- 
ments at Drury's Bluff. General Grant believed that many of the 
Confederate troops were still in and about Richmond, and that 
Petersburg could be captured by assault all along the lines. A new 
difficulty now appeared. Confederates had abandoned their advanced 
and broken line and were now strongly posted in a new line, the 
best that engineering skill could devise, bristling with rifles in the 
hands of veteran troops, with artillery at every advantageous point, 
covering every square rod of the territory between the lines. 

There is no doubt that the general attack upon the Confederate 
lines was intended, by the commanding general, to be made very 
much earlier, probably on the night of the 15th or as soon as troops 
could be gotten into position. One delay after another had disap- 
pointed him and by the morning of the i8th, when the grand charge 
was to be ordered, the new conditions and new Confederate works 
that had arisen in the night so changed the aspect of aff'airs that the 
final order was not given until late in the afternoon. The charge 
was ordered to be made along the entire front. The First Maine 
had been designated as the center or storming column. They were 
posted in a portion of the old Prince George Courthouse road, 
where that road made a sharp turn to the right, running northwest 
past old New Market Race Course and nearly parallel with the 
enemy's line of works, and about five hundred yards distant from 
them. At this point this road, partly a plank road, was dug into the 
ground, the dirt thrown up at the sides (a common method of mak- 
ing roads in Virginia), the embankments being covered with small 
trees and bushes a portion of the way, thus affording a good shelter 
from bullets and shell during the period of waiting for orders. Our 
Regiment was ordered to charge in three lines, its three battalions, 
commanded by its three majors. Shepherd, Grossman, and Captain 
W. S. Clark, were formed in that order, 850 strong, the whole 



J 22 IHE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

under command of Major R. B. Shepherd, made ready for the word 
to advance. Our colonel, Daniel Chaplin, commanded the brigade, 
the writer serving as aid. Artillery was posted upon the high 
ground in the rear and a little to the left -where it could fire over 
the heads of the troops until they were near the enemy's lines. 
The first line were to clear away the abatis and gain the ditch. 
The second line were to follow closely after them, keeping the 
enemv from their works while the first line were making ready for 
the rush, and to follow in immediately to assist the first line in 
driving the enemy out; third line to follow the others. The whole 
division was to advance at the same time to draw the fire of the 
enemy and keep them off the parapets, to seize the enemy's 
works in their front as soon as a break was made in the center. 
The period of waiting for the word seemed an eternity. There 
was probably not a staff officer in Mott's division who had seen 
those lines that did not feel that the undertaking was well nigh 
impossible at this hour, but the First Maine officers and men were 
soldiers. The first duty of a soldier is obedience to orders. When 
this order came they obeyed it with alacrity. Five hundred yards 
across an open field in plain sight of the enemy, within easy range 
of their artillery posted along their works a mile in length and across 
the river in position to rake the field, they must run before they could 
reach the enemy's lines. If the attack had been made promptly by 
our troops all along the line as ordered, the enemy would have had 
plenty to attend to in their immediate front. But the veteran troops 
on the right and left had not forgotten their experience in assailing 
breastworks at the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, and at Cold Harbor. 
They did indeed rush forward at the order, but the fire was so terrific 
in their faces that they fell back into their breastworks. The First 
Maine continued their advance, rushing for the front. The enemy's 
firing along their whole line was now centered into this field. The 
earth was literally torn up with iron and lead. The field became a 
burning, seething, crashing, hissing hell, in which human courage, 
flesh, and bone were struggling with an impossibility, either to suc- 
ceed or to return with much hope of life. So in ten minutes those 
who were not slaughtered had returned to the road or were lying 
prostrate upon that awful field of carnage. 

The tiring from the enemy's lines and from the Union lines 
was constantly kept up, so that those who were wounded must be 



RESCUE OF COMRADES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD. 1 23 

wounded again or killed by flying missiles. When night came on a 
dense mist settled over the field. Some of the wounded, who could, 
crawled into the lines. Some were rescued by their brave comrades 
who went to them in the darkness. Every attempt to make a rescue 
was equal to the hazards of an ordinary hard-fought battle. 

In the gray dawn of the morning of the 19th the writer, accom- 
panied by comrades Dole and Drew of Company F, attempted to 
rescue Lieutenant Ruggles and some other comrades, who were 
believed to be wounded not far from the enemy's lines. Taking 
advantage of the dense fog, they approached to where he was 
supposed to have fallen, within one hundred yards of the enemy's 
breastworks and not far from where the monument now stands. 
The fog suddenly lifted, they were discovered by the enemy and fire 
blazed from their guns. They were obliged to drop into the field 
gullies where the dead were piled and to make a most perilous run 
to the cover of the breastworks, when the fog again shut down. 

So terrible was the fire for days at this point that no further 
attempt was made, either to bring any off or to bury the dead, except 
in the darkness of the night. It was an appalling sight, to take a 
desperate chance for life and peer over the breastworks across this 
field of slaughter, strewn thick with the blue-coated bodies of those 
sterling sons of Maine, decomposing in the fierce rays of a Southern 
sun. What ghastly evidence of the inhumanity of man to man! 
What a spectacular evidence of the awful horrors of war! What an 
awful price in blood was the nation and our beloved State paying 
for every drop of blood drawn from the black hide of an African 
slave by a cruel and barbarous master in the days gone by! Had a 
powerful people never read before the mandates of the Almighty 
against oppression and cruelty, from this point they could now 
remember their sins of omission in permitting slavery in the years 
now passed. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord." 
This was the last assault made before General Grant determined to 
settle down to the siege of Petersburg. The Confederates who stood 
behind their breastworks testified in later years that they could not 
but admire the gallant bravery of these men as they swept across 
that fateful field in the face of such a murderous fire. As the Union 
soldiers at Gettysburg gave vent to their admiration of the brave 
charge of Pickett's division, so comrades and foemen admired the 



,24 THE FIRST MAIXE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

courage of this dauntless Regiment at Petersburg. Both charges 
failed of the desired result; both were fateful in the extreme. Had 
IMckett succeeded at Gettysburg the result of the war might have 
been different and less fortunate for both South and North. Had 
the charge of the i8th of June been successful and Petersburg fallen 
into the hands of the Union forces, the end of the war might have 
come sooner. The result might also have been different. It seems 
to us now providential that neither of these charges succeeded. It 
is quite probable that at either time the nation had not paid the full 
measure of penalty for the great sin of slavery. The South had not 
vet suffered enough to yield to reason ; the North had not sacrificed 
enough to make her people careful and conscientious for the future. 
It seemed to us that the (Confederates must realize that it could only 
be a question of time when they must give up, yet a divine Provi- 
dence seemed to order that they must suffer the horrors of war for 
yet another season; that the South must endure the awful winter of 
'64 and '65 only to suffer at its end a more crushing humiliation as 
the spring burst forth in beauty. 

The following morning of the 19th was a sorrowful one for the 
survivors. Of the 850 brave comrades who sprang from the road 
and swept across that fateful field, a sorrowful remnant of less than 
200 now gathered together in a ravine a little back from the scene 
of carnage and attempted to reorganize their shattered companies. 
In some of the companies not even one commissioned officer was 
left; only two of the company commanders were left unhurt. Sev- 
eral companies were commanded by a sergeant. Many of the men 
who had not been wounded had their garments tattered and torn by 
bullets and shell. 

During the night a few hours of fitful sleep uncovered upon the 
ground, and a ration of coffee in the early morning, had brought 
some composure to those who had not been engaged all night 
m the rescue of their comrades and they were trying to reorganize 
the little remnant of survivors. 

I'iie strongest ties between human beings are not cemented in 
•safely, luxury, and comfort. It is the sharing together of the scanty 
covering, the insufficient shelter, drinking from the same cup, eating 
from the same plate, the dividing by a hungry soldier with a hun- 
grier comrade the last morsel of meat or the remnant of a cracker; 



A SORROWFUL RECilMENT. 1 25 

the binding up of each other's wounds, the lending of courage from 
one heart to another: these are what create the strongest bonds 
between human beings. So this small remnant of men left from 
this gallant Regiment were not only enfeebled in body, but they 
were extremely sorrowful in heart on this June 19th morning. The 
dearest friends they ever had, outside of home, were now lying 
between those lines of breastworks over yonder upon that awful field 
of carnage, from whence was still coming the crash of infantry firing 
and the booming of artillery and shrieking of shells. Most of them 
were dead, some were dying. Many were wounded, hungry, thirsty, 
waiting for the moment when a lead or iron missile from friend or 
foe, or some daring comrade under cover of the mist of the morning 
or the darkness of the night, should bring them relief. If they were 
not stretched upon that field, they were yonder somewhere around 
that old house upon the hill, half a mile back of us, where all night 
long the corps of surgeons had been dressing wounds, amputating 
limbs, and probing for bullets. 

The writer rode back to the division hospital at midnight and 
again just after daylight in the gray dawn of the 19th. To bring 
some courage to this great multitude of shockingly wounded men 
and hide the sorrow of his own breaking heart, to suppress the 
tears and give a hopeful greeting to such a prostrate company, 
every one of whom knew him and were his comrade friends, 
required an effort never before or since equaled, either in the 
sorrows or necessities of life. Every kind of a wound known to 
the battlefield had been inflicted upon some one or another of these 
comrades. Some were just emerging from the effects of the chloro- 
form administered for the operation. Some were becoming cheerful 
and hopeful and encouraging others. Some were lying in a semi- 
unconscious condition, pale-faced, in utter helplessness. Over the 
ghastly faces of some the pallor of death was just creeping. Some 
had struggled through the operation, the forces of nature had col- 
lapsed, and they had passed over beyond the scenes of battle, to be 
mustered with the greater army. 

The ambulance corps was being taxed to its utmost to remove 
those who could be moved to City Point and on board the transports 
to be taken to hospitals in the North, away from the intense heat. 

Returning again to the Regiment, we found during the day that 
our losses so far as we could ascertain were 115 killed, 489 wounded, 



Killed. 


Wounded. 


Total 


155 


374 


529 


7 


43 


50 


242 


372 


614 



j,^ THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

and 28 missing, a total of 632 men lost in ten minutes. No such 
havoc was wrought in any other regiment during the entire war. 

1-rom the beginning of this campaign the Regiment had lost in 
killed and wounded as follows: 

At Spottsylvania Courthouse, 
Intervening losses at North Anna, 

Totopotomoy Creek, and Cold 

Harbor, 
Petersburg, i6th, 17th, and 18th 

of June, 

Totals, 404 789 1^193 

In addition to this, during the campaign to this time, 14 were made 
prisoners of whom 12 died, thus bringing the total deaths up to 416. 

The duties of the writer brought him in full view of this field 
during this charge and on the morning following, and also during 
the retreat of Gordon's Confederate troops, after their capture of 
Fort Steadman on the 25th of the following March, when the Con- 
federates sustained a loss in killed and wounded even greater in 
numbers than our brigade lost on the fatal 18th of June. 

After careful studies of the battles of history, he believes that 
the spot around where the First Maine Monument now stands to be 
the one acre where more blood was spilled in battle than upon any 
other acre described in history. This monument also marks the 
spot where were made the two most audacious attempts to perform 
impossibilities. In both cases the assault was made too late; in 
both the way to victory had been forever barred. 

OFFICIAL INFORMATION P.V THE CHIEF OF STAFF THE i8tH OF JUNE. 

The morning of this day found General Meade in a state of 
mind to demand the most strenuous and persistent assaults, with a 
view to carry, if possible, at any cost, the lines of the enemy defend- 
inc Petersburg. Had such a temper presided over the operations 
of the 15th or the i6th, it is safe to assert, with what we now know, 
that Petersburg would have been occupied by the Union forces; 

* Kill. Ml ;iii<l (lird of wounds. 



GENERAL MEADE S DESPATCH TO GENERAL BIRNEY. 127 

but the time that had elapsed had permitted Lee heavily to reinforce 
Beauregard, and had enabled the latter officer, still charged with the 
defense, to construct a strong interior line of works, against which 
our troops were vainly to be hurled, making the i8th of June one of 
the bloody days of the Army of the Potomac. 

Most inopportunely it happened that Hancock had become at 
this date completely disabled. Fragments of bone, splintered at 
Gettysburg, had been for the past few^ days, as already stated, making 
their way to the surface ; and after the close of the action of the 
17th the gallant general had been obliged to relinquish his com- 
mand to Birney. The history of the succeeding day can never be 
fully written, since no official report regarding it was ever made ; 
and thus, although the operations were of sufficient magnitude to 
justify a detailed account, only general and vague statements can 
be given. 

At daybreak General Birney pushed forward a strong skirmish 
line, on both the right and the left of the Prince George Court- 
house Road, and found that the enemy had withdrawn from the 
positions they held the night before to a new line beyond the Hare 
house. On sending this information with a prisoner from Hoke's 
division, Birney received the following dispatch : 



Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, |^ 
7 A. M., June i8th. i 

Major General Bir7iey : — I have received your dispatch and 
Hoke's man. There is every reason to believe the enemy have no 
regularly fortified line between the one abandoned and Petersburg, 
but if time is given them they wdll make one. I have moved the 
whole army forward and directed the commanding officers on vour 
right and left to communicate with you. It is of great importance 
the enemy should be pressed, and, if possible, forced across the 
Appomattox. I cannot ascertain there is any force in our front but 
Beauregard's, consisting of Hoke's, Ransom's, and Johnson's (Bush- 
rod) divisions. They cannot be over thirty thousand, and we have 
fifty-five thousand. If we can engage them before they are fortified 
we ought to w^hip them, 

George C. Meade. 



, ,(^ THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

(General Meade's information regarding the force of the enemy 
was accurate at the date of the dispatch, but it was the fortune of 
the Potomac Army that Pleld's and Kershaw's divisions should 
arrive before the first assault could be delivered, followed, during 
the afternoon, by the troops of A. P. Hill. The corps on the left of 
the second had a long distance to traverse before reaching the 
enemy's new line and were consequently late in getting at their work; 
but between ten and eleven General Birney had developed the works 
in his front, and reported to General Meade that the Confederate 
position was strong, and that artillery could not assist in the attack; 
but that he was ready to assault as soon as the eighteenth corps, on 
his right, should be ready to cooperate. General Meade, in reply, 
directed that the attack be made precisely at noon ; that the column 
of assault be strong, well-supported, and vigorously pushed, the 
troops to advance without firing until they should penetrate the 
enemy's line. 

Promptly on the minute. Gibbon's division was thrown forward 
in two lines of battle but was repulsed, General Pierce, commanding 
brigade, being wounded. F"eeling himself strongly urged by the 
tone of General Meade's previous dispatches, GeneraP Birney, in 
communicating the result, expressed his purpose to renew the assault. 
In reply he received the following: "You will attack again, as you 
propose, with the least possible delay. The order of attack this 
morning required strong columns of assault. Please conform to this. 
General Martindale (commanding two divisions of the eighteenth 
corps) is about advancing again and needs your cooperation. Select 
your own point of attack, but do not lose any time in examination." 

.\t a later hour General Birney received the following : "I 
have sent a positive order to Generals Burn side and Warren to attack 
at all hazards with their whole force. I find it useless to appoint 
an hour to effect cooperation, and I am therefore compelled to give 
you the same order. Vou have a large corps, powerful and num- 
erous, and I beg you will at once, as soon as possible, assault in a 
strong column. The day is fast going, and I wish the practicability 
of carrying the enemy's line settled before dark." 

In obedience to these urgent instructions. General Birney 
formed the division of Mott, supported by one of Gibbon's brigades 
and by the division of Barlow on the left, and made a strenuous 



THE LAST OF THE SERIES OF ASSAULTS. 1 29 

assault, which was repulsed with terrible slaughter. Colonel John 
Ramsey, 8th New Jersey, commanding the brigade, was severely 
wounded. The attack of Mott, from the Hare house, was especially 
memorable on account of the heroic bearing and monstrous 
losses of the First Maine Heavy Artillery, which that general, 
determined to try what virtue there might be in the enthusiasm of a 
new, fresh, strong regiment, not yet discouraged by repeated failures, 
had placed in his front line. The older regiments advanced in 
support of the heavy artillery, to take advantage of its success should 
it penetrate the enemy's works. The charge was a most gallant one 
though unsuccessful, the Maine men advancing over a space of 
three hundred and fifty yards swept by musketry, and only retiring 
after more than six hundred of their number had fallen, the heavi- 
est loss sustained by any regiment of the Union armies in any 
battle of the war. 

Thus ended the last of the great series of assaults upon 
intrenched positions. After live o'clock General Meade had become 
satisfied that it was impracticable to carry the enemy's lines; but 
his last dispatch shows how firmly he had set his soul upon the 
attempt. 

" Sorry to hear you could not carry the works. Get the best 
line you can and be prepared to hold it. I suppose you cannot 
make anj more attacks, and I feel satisfied that all has been done 
that can be done." 



CHAPTER XII, 



AKTKR THK DISASTER— NOBLE HEROISM OF THE MEN MORALE OF 

rHK RKdlMKNl- BATTLE OF WELDON ROAD, JUNE 22D FIRST 

DKKI- BOTIOM — MINE EXPLOSION SECOND DEEP BOTTOM 

DKAIH OF COLONEL CHAPLIN- 



-DE TROBRIAND S ACCOUNT OF IT. 



It was prophesied by some of the veteran officers of our corps 
and division that this magnificent Regiment, having suffered so 
severely and lost so many men during this one eventful campaign, 
would never again recover its prestige. It is often true that any 
organization, brigade, or regiment of intelligent American soldiers 
that has been uselessly sacrificed to no purpose will become cautious 
and even timorous in making an attack. General Grant experienced 
this in the last assaults made at Vicksburg and at Cold Harbor, 
both of which he says in his Memoirs he regretted having made, as 
the results did not justify the loss. The greatest losses in a charge 
are not made in an advance, but if the assault at the end of that 
charge is unsuccessful, the great loss of life occurs in getting back, 
for there is then no hindrance to the deadly fire of the enemy. The 
prophets of evil w^ere, however, in the case of the First Maine, 
mistaken. On the 21st of June General Grant had determined to 

extend his left in the direction of 
the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, 
which he desired to seize and thus 
envelop Petersburg with his army. 
The second and sixth corps were 
moved stealthily to the left for the 
purpose of turning the Confederate 
right, but when our second corps, 
which was in advance, reached the 
Jerusalem Plank Road between the 
Norfolk and Weldon Railroads, we 
met a heavy force and were pushed 
back to a position connecting with 
l/r. <!kn. r. s. (ii{ AN'i' the fifth corps. On the morning of 




<'ninin:iii(IiiiK' L 



Ariiii( 



A CASE OF RUN OR BE CAPTURED. 



31 



the 2 2d we left our breastworks and together with the sixth corps 
advanced, maneuvering to turn the Confederate right. We moved 
forward across an open space into a belt of heavy woods. During 
the early morning we could hear the enemy chopping and digging 
in our front and not far away. 

The sixth corps was on our left. We w^ere supposed to be 
connected, covering all the ground in the enemy's front, but such 
connection was not perfectly made, and a division of the command 
of A. P. Hill, who had been watching our movements, suddenly 
darted in between the sixth corps and the left of our division, and 
when first discovered by our stafif officers they were charging directly 
upon our left and rear. This was a case of run or be gobbled. 
Most of the officers had left their horses in rear of the old line of 
breastworks. First the staff officers, then the regimental and com- 
pany commanders, shouted the command: "Look out for your- 
selves; make a stand in the old line." These orders were obeyed 
with alacrity. Some rare exhibitions of speed were made in getting 
back to the old line of breastworks. During our sudden start the 
tattered remains of the flag presented to our Regiment by the ladies 
of Bangor was left sticking in the partly constructed breastworks at 
our right. This was rescued by one of our own officers then doing 
staff duty and handed over to a sergeant in rear of the old line, and 
later returned by the hand that rescued it to the lady who presented 
it, and is now at the State House in Augusta. Every soldier made 
a stand for himself in this rear line, the old rifle pits were quickly 
manned and ^ volley poured into the ranks of the on-coming Con- 
federates that made them reel and stagger back. Several batteries 
of artillery had been strongly posted just in rear of this line. Four 
howitzers came crashing through the wooded road and were almost 
instantly in the line of breastworks, hurling grape and canister with 
deadly effect into the Confederate columns. They went running 
back to their old breastworks across the field and beyond the woods. 
Our own Regiment and the whole division, as also the divisions of 
Barlow and Gibbon, lost heavily in wounded and prisoners. General 
Meade came up at about the time of the finish of this brush and at 
about sunset ordered both corps, the second and the sixth, to advance 
and retake what they had lost. Confederate General Hill suddenly 
withdrew, but he took with him about 2,500 prisoners. On the 



13^ 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 




Ma.i. (.kn. *.i:t). (.. MEADE, 
('<»iniii:iii(linf? Army of tlie Potomac 



morning of the 23d both corps again 
advanced and reached the Weldon 
Railroad without much opposition, 
but the three regiments in the 
advance had scarcely begun the de- 
struction of the track when they were 
savagely attacked by a portion of- 
Hill's corps and driven back on the 
main line with a loss of many pris- 
oners. The Weldon Road had now 
been reached. The line had been 
extended to the left, but at a cost of 
about 4,000 men, chiefly captives. 
The loss in our Regiment was 4 
killed, 15 wounded, and 21 prisoners. 
While these events were going on at Petersburg, a cavalry 
expedition, under Generals Kautz and Wilson, had been sent out to 
operate on the railroads leading south of Petersburg. Wilson was 
in command. They destroyed the station at Reams, ten miles south 
of Petersburg on the Weldon Railroad, and the track for a long 
distance, and then pushed on to the Southside Railroad at Fords 
Station, about fifteen miles from Petersburg, and destroyed that 
road to Nottoway Station for a space of about twenty miles. 

There they fought and defeated a brigade of cavalry under Fitz 
Hugh Lee. (xeneral Kautz then pushed on to Burkes Station, at a 
junction of the Southside and Danville Railroads, tore up both 
these roads, pushed southward along the Danville Road, meeting 
Wilson at Meherring Station on June 24th. Together they destroyed 
that road to the Staunton River. Being attacked by a gathering 
force, they were compelled to fight their way to Reams Station on 
the Weldon Road, which they expected to find in the possession of 
the Nationals. Instead, however, they found the cavalry of Hamp- 
ton and infantry under Mahone and Finnegan in great strength, 
'i'hey were defeated in attacking this Confederate force and with 
difficulty they made their way back to the army before Petersburg 
with their men and horses nearly exhausted. No other raid in the 
rear of the Confederates was undertaken for some months after the 
return of this one. So dangerous and expensive a service was not 
deemed profitable. 



THE SIEGE OF PETERSBURG. 1 33 

Now after a sanguinary, constant, and bloody struggle for two 
months, both armies, the National and Confederate, were willing to 
have a little repose. General Grant had decided to envelop Peters- 
burg and settle down to a regular siege. During this fierce campaign 
the Union army now investing Petersburg had lost nearly 70,000 
men. Reinforcements had been constantly arriving and had kept 
up its numbers, but the quality of its material had greatly depre- 
ciated. Many veterans remained, but a vast portion of the army 
was composed of raw troops, who had been little drilled, were undis- 
ciplined, and lacked the buoyant spirit of the Army of the Potomac 
which had formerly been led by McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, and 
Meade. They were now facing the enemy in skillfully constructed 
line of redans, redoubts, and rifle pits encircling Petersburg, cover- 
ing a line of nearly forty miles. This line extended from the left 
bank of the Appomattox around the western side of Petersburg on 
to and across the James River to the northeastern side of Richmond. 
To menace this required an equally long line by the besiegers. 
Reinforcements swelled our weakened ranks in every army corps, 
division, brigade, and regiment. Strong works and rifle pits were 
cast up along the front of the whole Confederate line, from the 
Weldon Road to the region of the Chickahominy River. On the 
night of the 20th of June General Butler threw the brigade of Gen- 
eral Foster across the James River at Deep Bottom, where he formed 
an intrenched camp, within ten miles of Richmond. This camp 
was connected with the army at Bermuda Hundred by a pontoon 
bridge. 

The lodgment of Foster on the north bank of the James and 
the pontoon bridge at Deep Bottom provided a way for General 
Grant to move heavy masses of troops quickly to the north side of 
the James. 

All the men of our command will well remember crossing and 
recrossing this pontoon bridge. By the close of July a greater por- 
tion of that wonderful network of fortifications around Petersburg 
and Richmond, which commanded the admiration of visitors, was 
nearly completed and General Grant was in position to choose his 
own method of warfare ; whether by direct assaults or by striking 
the flanks of the enemy and finally compelling him to surrender or 
come out of his works. 



,. . THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

THE INVASION OF MARYLAND. 

While these operations had been going on from the Rapidan 
to the south side of Richmond, General Seigel, who had been charged 
with the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, had made a flat failure. 
He had been succeeded by General Hunter. General Grant had 
directed this officer to proceed up the valley and attack Lynchburg, 
seizinc' that city, passing from there to join the National forces 
around Richmond. General Lee had been watching for an oppor- 
tunity to create a diversion which would draw General Grant's army 
away from Richmond. This opportunity was offered when General 
Hunter began retreating from before Lynchburg into Western Vir- 
ginia, leaving the Shenandoah Valley and its door opening into 
Maryland and Harper's Ferry guarded only by a small force under 
General Seigel. General Lee directed Early, now in command of 
Kwell's whole corps, to gather all the troops in the valley of the 
Shenandoah, move rapidly across the Potomac into Maryland, draw 
the National troops from before Petersburg, procure supplies for the 
army, and, if possible, to capture Washington. Early obeyed 
promptly and, with from 15,000 to 20,000 troops, swept down the 
valley. Seigel retreated before him with heavy loss of stores, while 
(General Webber, commanding at Harper's Ferry, retreated to Mary- 
land Heights. General Grant directed Hunter, then on the Kanawha, 
to hasten to Harper's Ferry, but he was too slow to be of service, 
and Karly found no troops opposed to him except the few in the 
middle department commanded by General Lew Wallace. 

Early crossed the river at Williamsport accompanied by Brad- 
ley T. Johnson and a notorious guerrilla leader named Gilmor, both 
bitter Maryland rebels, who now acted as guides and assistants of 
the chief of the invaders in bringing the horrors o£ war to the doors 
of their neighbors and friends. 

Early pushed on to Hagerstown, levied a contribution of 
;^20,ooo on its inhabitants, swept over toward the Pennsylvania line, 
plundering friend and foe alike of horses, cattle, provisions, and 
money. (General Lew Wallace, in command of the department at 
Baltimore, finding his department threatened, took immediate meas- 
ures for checking the invaders at the Monocacy River with a few 
troops under his command. On the evening of the 6th of July he 
had all of his effective men that could be spared at the appointed 



EARLY S ADVANCE INTO MARYLAND. 135 

place under General Tyler. Grave fears being felt for the safety of 
Washington, General Wallace made arrangements to meet the 
enemy, and on the 9th made dispositions for battle. Meanwhile 
General Grant had ordered the sixth corps, under General Wright, to 
proceed from Petersburg to \\'ashington on transports. Having 
defeated General Wallace's small force at the Monocacy, General 
Johnston, with the cavalry of EwelTs command, approached Balti- 
more, which he expected to capture easily. He was mistaken. 
Generals Lockwood and Morris were there. They had gathered 
thousands of loyal citizens, garrisoned the earthworks around that 
city and guarded every avenue of approach. 

Early, made discreet by his check at the Monocacy, moved 
cautiously toward Washington, not to enter through a line of inva- 
lids and green troops as he expected, for when he was ready for the 
attack upon the defenses of Washington he was met on the picket 
line by the veterans of the sixth corps. General Wright was speed- 
ily reinforced by two divisions of the nineteenth corps which had 
come up from Fortress Monroe. Early lost no time in getting back 
to Virginia. Up to this time General Grant had been unable to 
control matters in the Shenandoah Valley. His orders for that 
department, sent through the war department, had been changed 
to suit the notions of General Halleck. Upon his arrival General 
Grant found General Hunter, who was in command, so perplexed 
by conflicting orders from Washington that he expressed a desire 
to be relieved, and General Grant promptly placed General Sheridan 
in command, with instructions to sw^eep out the valley of the Shenan- 
doah and clean it up, so there would never hereafter be an induce- 
ment for the Confederates to return to it. The way Sheridan 
performed this task gave a fright to the timid officials at Washington, 
a never-to-be-forgotten set-back to the Confederacy, a powerful 
Republican argument to the political campaign then going on, and 
sealed his fame as one of the greatest generals of modern times. 

He was never afterward condemned or held back by the war 
department on account of his youth. He was said to have remarked 
in one of his reports, that "henceforth, a crow fiying across the 
valley would have to take his rations with him." 

While we were reading of and observing the invasion of Mary- 
land, Early's appearance before Washington and his driving away 



1,6 THE FIRSr MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

by General Wright, the installing of Sheridan by General Grant as 
commander of the middle division, with instructions to clean up the 
Shenandoah Valley, important events were transpiring around 
Petersburg. 

THE GREAT MINE DISASTER. 

We have alluded to the lodgment of General Foster on the 
north side of the James at Deep Bottom. This was now to be used 
by General (irant as a part of a plan of assault on the Confederate 
lines at Petersburg, in connection with the blowing up of one of the 
enemy's most powerful forts situated not far from the cemetery, and 
not more than a thousand yards from Petersburg. Many of our 
comrades will remember working upon this mine under direction of 
Lieutenant Colonel Pleasants of the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment, 
belonging to the ninth corps. About the 23d of July this mine was 
ready for use, and Foster had effected his lodgment at Deep Bottom. 
Our second corps with a part of Sheridan's cavalry was ordered to 
proceed to Deep Bottom, pass by Foster's forces, flank the Confed- 
erate left, and assault Richmond. General Grant's object was to 
draw Confederate troops from the front of Petersburg and compel 
him to weaken his lines, so that the assault and blowdng up the mine 
might promise success. Our movement had the desired effect. 
Between the 27th and 29th of July General Lee withdrew five of his 
divisions from the south side of the James. The explosion of the 
mine was ordered on the 30th and was entirely successful as far as 
the explosion was concerned. 

The conception of the mine belonged to Lieutenant Colonel 
Pleasants. (General Burnside had adopted his plan. General 
Meade had hesitatingly approved and committed the operation to 
(ieneral Burnside, commanding the ninth corps,' supported by the 
eighteenth corps now commanded by General Ord, who had been 
called from the west to replace General W. F. Smith. The plan 
was an excellent one, but as it had not originated with the regular 
engineers of the army they refused all assistance, and took no part 
in the enterprise, constantly proclaiming its absurdity. Following 
their suggestions most of the superior officers of the army looked on 
as spectators more amused than interested. The courage with which 
Colonel Pleasants persevered in the admirable construction of a 
well-planned enterprise would have done great credit to some of the 



EXPLOSION OF THE MINE. 137 

engineers who hindered it. The work was completed, that which 
was declared impossible had been done. The explosion, if it suc- 
ceeded, and if we knew how to take the benefit of it, must deliver 
Petersburg into our hands. General Lee had sent more than half 
his forces from in front of Petersburg to head off our Deep Bottom 
expedition, and Hancock would keep them there with his two divis- 
ions. He would move back in the night and would be in front of 
Petersburg before they could recross the river. The choice of the 
ninth corps to lead the attack was unfortunate. They had suffered 
much during the campaign and many of their troops were new, with 
one division of colored troops. General Burnside, a former com- 
mander of the Army of the Potomac, had taken charge of the 
enterprise and was bound by honor to complete the work. General 
Meade, at the last recognizing the importance of the operation, had 
given minute direction as to how the charge was to be made after 
the explosion. General Burnside had designated his colored division, 
under command of General Ferrero, to make the charge. General 
Meade set aside this decision. One of the other divisions was 
selected by lot and the assault fell to General Ledlie's division, a 
most unfortunate selection as to the quality of its soldiery, and it 
was worse commanded. 

From the instant of this choice our chance of success was gone. 
The necessary preparations had not been made in front of the works. 
The abatis and chevaux-de-frise had not been cleared aw^ay. The way 
of debouchment of the charging columns was not made plain or 
fully explained by the corps commander. Too much was left to 
accident. Our third division had taken the place of the eighteenth 
and a part of the tenth corps on Burnside's right, extending from 
Fort Hell to the Appomattox River. The left of our brigade was 
so near the enemy that our sharpshooters, distributed along the 
front of the works, could easily throw stones into the enemy's 
picket line. The arrival in the works of our third division was 
heard by the enemy and brought a shower of shells. There was 
some delay, so that the explosion did not occur at half-past 
three in the morning as it had been ordered. There were 
about 200 men in the enemy's doomed works sleeping tran- 
quilly, a sleep from which they were never to awaken except in 
eternity. Silence reigned everywhere in the Confederate lines. 



I ^8 THK FIRST .MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Their sentinels were wearily watching the gray appearing of the 
morning as it changed into the light of day. In our lines all eyes 
were open. At four o'clock it was broad daylight and nothing had 
happened. At a quarter past four we were impatient. "What has 
happened ? '" " Has the order been countermanded ? " Suddenly the 
earth reeled beneath our feet. An enormous mass of earth and 
timber arose in the air and spread out like a wheat sheaf. The 
mass spread out, broke up and fell back to earth in a rain of dirt, 
timber, logs, and mangled human bodies, leaving a cloud of smoke 
and lurid Hame floating away in the air The enemy's redan had 
disappeared. Instantly, as though the explosion had set us all on 
fire, our whole line blazed into fire and smoke. In an instant all 
our batteries opened on the enemy's intrenchments. Projectiles 
whistled, roared, and burst. We heard the cry of the first division 
as it advanced to the assault. Instead of passing to the right and 
left of the crater and clearing the line of the enemy as they advanced, 
thus opening a way for the other division to charge through and up 
to the Cemetery Hill, they rushed directly into the mouth of the 
crater and huddled down in the great pit. There was nothing in 
front of them. Their commanding general was in a bombproof 
within our lines. There was no one to intelligently direct them. 
The opportunity for their supports to do their work was lost. The 
enemy, discovering their plight, was given time to get in position 
and make the crater a slaughter pen. He seized his opportunity. 
The h'irst Maine Heavy Artillery was not actively engaged, but 
remained within our line of works and lost only one man wounded. 

On the whole the mine and everything connected with it was a 
conspicuous, disastrous, and costly failure. The Confederates w^ere 
greatly encouraged by it. We remained quiet about two weeks. 

General Birney was now commanding the tenth corps, General 
Hancock having returned to the command of our corps. On the 
1 2th of August General Grant had ordered another movement to 
the right, consisting of the remainder of the tenth corps, to which 
Foster's division at Deep Bottom belonged. Our second corps and 
the cavalry under (iregg, for the purpose of deceiving the enemy, 
were marched to City Point, and our corps was embarked on trans- 
ports ; their destination was understood to be Washington. When 
all were on board the transports, some of the officers of the First 



DEATH OF COLONEL CHAPLIN. 139 







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iSLv.). (4kx. W. S. HANCOCK, .AIa.i. (4kx. 1). 15. lUlCNKV. 

Conini:i7i(ling ^(l Army Corps. ('oiiiinandiiig' od Div.. Jil Aniiy Coips. 

Maine, observing that the writer did not come aboard, queried him 
very earnestly to ascertain what he knew as to where the Regiment 
was going. It was some comfort to them to learn that they were 
probably going down river. The writer did not think it best to 
inform them too soon of another Deep Bottom raid. They did drop 
down the river, and during the night the transports steamed up to 
Deep Bottom, while the artillery and cavalry marched across from 
the Appomattox to the James River, crossing on the pontoon bridge 
as before. The slowness of the troops in disembarking undeceived 
the enemy, and the movement which was intended to begin by day- 
break did not get off until late in the forenoon. 

Two divisions of our corps pushed out by the Malvern Hills 
and New Market road to flank the Confederate defenses, while our 
third division threatened the enemy's front, with the tenth corps 
between us and the river. General Gregg with the cavalry, sup- 
ported by Miles's first division of our corps, moved out on the 
Charles City road with the view of drawing the Confederates out of 
their intrenchments. While this was going on our division was 
attacked by a heavy force, which was repulsed after a fight of about 
twenty minutes, in which we were helped by Miles' division. The 
total loss of our corps, including the cavalry and the tenth corps, in 
this movement was about 5,000 men. Our losses were considerable, 
having met here the great disaster of losing our much beloved 
Colonel, Daniel Chaplin. He was on the picket line, where he had 



I^^O THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

gone to observe the position of the enemy's line, when he was struck 
by the bullet of a sharpshooter, which penetrated the lung. This 
was a great blow to every man in the Regiment. Colonel Chaplin 
was very much beloved and highly respected by all the officers and 
men. They regarded him as a sort of father of the Regiment, as 
well as its commander. No danger was too great for the boys if 
they were but following Colonel Chaplin. He was sent away on a 
transport never to be seen by us again. Our grief was intense. 
His death occurred a few days later. Besides the loss of Colonel 
Chaplin the Regiment had one man killed and eight wounded. 

While this pressure was being put upon the enemy's left, Gen- 
eral (irant sent Warren's corps and some cavalry who seized the 
Weldon Road, and though severely assaulted he held on to his posi- 
tion, which he afterward intrenched and continued to hold against 
all the assaults which General Lee made for the recovery of this 
valuable highway for supplying his army. General Warren's loss in 
all these engagements was about 4,000 men. 

I)E TROBRIAXD's account of THE DEATH OF COLONEL CHAPLIN. 

On the morning of the 17th Colonel Chaplin, commanding the 
First Regiment of Maine Artillery, was mortally wounded on my 
picket line. This Regiment was one of those which had been sent 
from Washington to reinforce the army during the first part of the 
campaign, and which had so brilliantly distinguished itself in its 
first engagement at Spottsylvania. It was then sixteen hundred 
strong. It lost more than a quarter in that affair. The baptism of 
tire cost it dearly. Arrived in front of Petersburg, there were still 
more than a thousand men in its ranks when, on the i8th of June, 
it received an order to charge the enemy's intrenchments at the 
front, where Fort Steadman was afterward built. The assault had 
no possible chance of success. It had to cross an open space three 
times as great as that generally assigned to charges of this sort. 
Nevertheless, these brave men advanced in good order, cut up by 
shell and musketry. They went as far as it was possible to go, 
melting away to the sight in a stream of blood, and strewing the 
ground with their dead and wounded. They were soon forced to 
halt. 'I'hey started out more than a thousand, they returned less 
than four hundred. The affair lasted from twelve to fifteen minutes. 



DE TRORRIAND's ACCOUNT. I4I 

They left behind them more than six hundred, of whom thirty were 
officers. 

These deplorable mistakes took place only too often during the 
war. It may have been that a corps commander too readily accepted 
the erroneous report of a volunteer officer of his staff. Eager for 
success, he gave the order to charge, without himself verifying the 
condition of affairs. The general of division has not always the 
moral courage to venture to object to such an order. The brigade 
commander, clearly seeing that it is a question of the useless 
destruction of one more of his regiments, can take it upon himself 
to comment upon it to his immediate superior, who will probably 
reply : " I know that as w^ell as you do ; but what can I do about 
it? The order is peremptory; it must be obeyed." It /s obeyed, 
and a regiment is massacred. 

Colonel Chaplin escaped in the butchery ; but it struck him a 
mortal blow, from which he did not recover. His men belonged to 
the same neighborhood with him. He had organized them; he had 
led them from the forests of Maine. They were his great family. 
When he saw them sacrificed under his eyes by a fantasy as deadly 
as useless, a melancholy discouragement took hold on him. Sombre 
presentiments besieged him. He was surrounded by phantoms. He 
answered to the call on August 17th, when the ball of a rebel skir- 
misher struck him down on my picket line. 

I regretted his death without being surprised at it, as I expected 
it. He was a doomed man to me from the first day I had seen him 
on taking command of the brigade. I designate in this way those 
on whom death has put his mark beforehand. If you ask me in 
what consists this mark, I would find it difficult to reply. One can 
scarcely define what is almost indefinable, a thing which is felt 
rather than perceived. This fatal seal is imprinted rather on the 
general manner than on the features. Its imprint is fugitive, and 
yet appears sometimes in the looks, at the bottom of which one 
divines the trembling of the soul soon about to depart; sometimes 
in the smile, in which appear the fieeting shadows of a cloud which 
does not belong to the earth ; sometimes in certain movements as if 
worn out, in certain languid acts in w^hich is betrayed the symptoms 
of a task which reaches its end. Sometimes, on the contrary, the 
finger of death is shown by a feverish energy without reason, forced 



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laughter, jerky movements. You perceive there a cord too tightly 
stretched, the vital cord, which must soon break. One would say 
that Nature is expending hurriedly forces which are soon to become 

useless. 

I am far from contending that all those who are about to die 
are marked. On the contrary, the immense majority march on to 
death without the least previous indication of the fate awaiting 
them. I state only a fact which experience demonstrated to me ; 
namely, that a small number of men carry the unmistakable mark of 
the near approach of the death awaiting them. I will also add that 
they are not themselves conscious of it, and that the number of those 
who can read these mysterious signs is very limited. Sometimes, in 
the evening, in camp, I have tried to describe the mark to officers 
around me. I do not remember ever having convinced any one of 
the truth of my theory. 

One rainy day I was conversing in my tent with Captain 
Wilson, assistant adjutant general of my brigade. We were then 
marching on Fredericksburg. Lieutenant Colonel Gilluly, com- 
manding the 5th Michigan, entered. He came simply on some 
detail of service, which was arranged in five minutes. When he had 
gone out, "Now," said I to my incredulous captain, "here is an 
opportunity to make a trial of my theory. Colonel Gilluly is 
marked." The captain evidently thought nothing of it. But in the 
first battle Colonel Gilluly was killed before Fredericksburg, w^hile 
bravely leading his regiment in a charge. 

Of all those on whom I have recognized the mark, — and they 
are many — one only may have escaped death. He was the colonel 
of a Pennsylvania regiment. He was shot through the body and 
lay for several weeks on the threshold of eternity. He had not 
recovered the last time I heard of him. 

This mark is entirely distinct from a presentiment. The latter 
is to the victim himself. It is an inexplicable revelation, but an 
acknowledged fact. There are so many incontestable examples on 
record that it would be idle to add any more here. In my opinion 
veritable presentiments announce death as certainly as the setting 
of the sun announces the coming of the night. Thank God, there 
are few organizations which are subject to it. People in general 
are not at all susceptible to it. 



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A sergeant had finished his three years of service before Peters- 
burg. Not wishing to reenlist immediately he took his discharge, 
and, his own master henceforth, he bade good-bye to his comrades 
the last evening he was to remain in camp. During the night came 
an order to prepare for an attack. At daylight the regiment was 
inline. "Well!" exclaimed the sergeant, gayly, "it shall not be 
said that the regiment went into a charge under my eyes without my 
accompanying it." He grasped a musket and took his place in the 
ranks and was killed. It was the last thing in the world of which he 
thought. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

RKTURN FROM DEEP BOTTOM BATTLE AT REAMS STATION FORT 

HKLI, LIFE UNDERGROUND SQUIRREL LEVEL BATTLE OF 

BOYDTON ROAD NEW CORPS COMMANDER — WELDON RAID 

hatcher's run LIFE IN WINTER QUARTERS. 

On the night of the i8th of August the second corps moved 
out from Deep Bottom, on the north side of the James River, and 
marched rapidly across in rear of General Butler's line, crossing the 
Appomattox. The first and second divisions passed in rear of our 
lines around Petersburg to the Weldon Railroad, striking it at 
Reams Station, our third division going into the lines between the 
Appomattox River and the Jerusalem Plank Road. 

Between the 21st and 25th they tore up considerable of that 
road south of Reams. The Confederates made a desperate attack 
in which our corps lost many men and the batteries of McKnight, 
Perry, and Sleeper. After a desperate fight by Miles' division some 
of the guns were retaken. Our corps retreated to a rear line, and 
during the night withdrew from Reams Station. Both sides lost 
heavily. We now took our places in the line of intrenchments at 
Fort Sedgwick, commonly known among the officers and soldiers as 
Fort Hell. 

While engaged in this duty we learned how to live under 
ground. The quarters of officers and men were made by excavat- 
ing into the ground which sloped to the rear, throwing the dirt up 
toward the enemy and on either ffank side, setting up stockade tim- 
bers on the same sides, covering the top with logs, then with brush 
and grass, banking the dirt against the rear and sides and over the 
log roof to the depth of five or six feet. This was a protection 
against bullets and direct shells. When the weather got cooler 
some stockading in the rear with shelter tents and improvised fire- 
places made quite comfortable quarters. 

Here our picket line was within a few yards of that of the 
enemy and both were intrenched, and while at this point the dis- 
tance between the main lines was about half a mile the Confederate 



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pickets were within a few rods of Fort Hell, although at other points 
to the right and left the distance from our works to their picket line 
was much greater. This nearness of the Confederate pickets 
annoyed our commanding of^cers, and General De Trobriand con- 
ceived the idea of forcing them back in the night, which he did on 
the 9th of September, employing several regiments of our first 
brif^ade. It was done with a rush of two regiments deployed as 
skirmishers, supported by the First Maine and one or two other 
regiments. The enemy made a desperate attempt to recapture their 
lost position, but failed. We held what we had captured until the 
fall of Petersburg. The loss to our Regiment was six men captured. 

From the time we first occupied Fort Hell to the fight at the 
Chimneys, as this affair was called, the pickets of the two armies 
had been on the most friendly terms, exchanging newspapers, trad- 
ing jackknives, and swapping coffee for tobacco, but from now on 
to the end of the siege a straggling fire was kept up day and night, 
the men often firing a hundred rounds of cartridges in twenty-four 
hours. 

About the middle of September General Wade Hampton's 
cavalry had come around our rear and, making a wide circuit, swept 
down to the vicinity of Sycamore Church, opposite Harrison's Land- 
ing, where he seized and drove back to the Confederate lines a herd 
of 2,500 beef cattle, captured about 300 men of the 13th Pennsyl- 
vania cavalry, with their horses, who were guarding the herd, also 
200 mules and 32 wagons. 

About this time we learned with interest of the third assault at 
Deep liottom by troops under Generals Birney and Ord, who 
assaulted the Confederate lines and captured Battery Harrison, one 
of the enemy's strongest fortifications. 

l'>attery Harrison was so important to the' Confederates that 
they made a desperate attempt to retake it. Our troops who had 
captured it were mostly colored. In the Confederate attempt to 
retake it they lost seven battle flags, were severely repulsed, and 
Clingman's North Carolina brigade nearly annihilated. 

S(,)UIRREL LEVEL. 

While this last-mentioned fight was going on north of the James, 
(ieneral Meade, taking advantage of the absence of some of Lee's 
forces from the Confederate right, sent Warren with two divisions 



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147 




of his own corps and General Parke 
with two divisions of the ninth corps 
and General Gregg with his cavalry 
division to attempt the extension of 
the National left toward the South- 
side Railroad. 

The fifth and ninth corps having 
met with some reverses on September 
30th, at Peebles' and Pegram's farms, 
Mott, with our division, was dis- 
patched on October ist to their 
assistance, being transported on the 
military railroad, the trains making 
several trips for the purpose, the 
troops arriving near Poplar Spring 
Church late in the afternoon in a pouring rain. 

We made ourselves as comfortable as possible through the 
night and on the morning of October 2d advanced along the Squir- 
rel Level road, formed our lines, and were ordered forward on 
double-quick, the First Maine charging across a narrow, open field 
amid a shower of bullets and bursting shells, into the woods beyond, 
where we were halted. The enemy were here shooting very low 
and we hugged the ground closely until four o'clock in the afternoon, 
when we were withdrawn and moved back toward Petersburg, halt- 
ing in the covered way leading into Fort Hell at three o'clock the 
next morning. Our loss in this affair was four killed, three wounded, 
and one prisoner. 



Ma.i. (;i.n. (iKHSllo.M -MOTT 

("oinniaiidiiig 3(1 Division, 2d 

Anny Corps. 



BOYDTON PLANK ROAD. 

The Confederates fought desperately to maintain their advanced 
and intrenched positions. But they were pushed back to a position 
about three miles west of the W'eldon Road and our lines were estab- 
lished near the Boydton Plank Road. This road was now Lee's chief 
channel of communication in that quarter. For its protection he 
had thrown up intrenchments along its line in the vicinity of its 
passage of a stream called Hatcher's Run. This line of Confederate 
works was also the defenses for the Southside Railroad, which ran 
parallel with the Plank Road. The task of attacking and turning the 
extreme right of that intrenched line was assigned to the ninth 



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corps, supported by the fifth, while our second corps, accompanied 
by (iregg's cavalry well to our left, under the command of General 
Hancock, should swing to the west side of Hatcher's Run, cross the 
Boydton Road, push on to the Southside Railroad, and hold it if 

possible. 

October 27th (General Parke attacked the Confederate left in 
their works, but was repulsed, while Warren with one division had 
crossed the Run in attempting to reach and turn the Confederate 
riank and gain its rear. 

While this was going on with the ninth and fifth corps, General 
Hancock with the second and Gregg's cavalry had passed around 
further to the left and gained the Boydton Road, near Burgess' Mill, 
and was about to push on to the Southside Road, but was ordered by 
General Meade to wait for Warren, who had crossed the Run and 
was trying to form a connection with the right of the second corps. 
While Crawford's division of the fifth corps was trying to find its 
way through the jungle up the Run to our right and General Gib- 
bon's division of our corps under General Egan was trying to make 
its way down the Run toward Crawford's left, the balance of our 
forces were waiting. The Confederates had been watching these 
movements, and while there was still a long gap of a mile between 
our right and the left of the fifth corps, General Heth's division of 
Hill's Confederate corps was sent to attack the isolated forces of 
our second corps before the rest of the army could cross the Run. 
Helh's movement was made so stealthily that the first knowledge of 
his presence was a furious attack upon our third division. General 
Pierce's brigade got away and lost two guns. The enemy eagerly 
pursued this brigade over an open space along the Boydton Plank 
Road, when they were struck heavily by Egan, who had faced to the 
rear and hastened to the rescue, sweeping down tlie Plank Road with 
the brigades of Generals Smythe and Willet. He drove the Con- 
federates back, while our own brigade and some dismounted cavalry 
under (General Kirwin attacked at the same time, recaptured the 
guns, and sent the Confederates fiying on through the jungle down 
the Run. A thousand of them were made prisoners. Many others 
in their Hight rushed into Crawford's line in the mixup and were 
captured. Night fell before our lines could be re-formed and con- 
nections made. In these encounters General Hancock lost about 



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149 




1,500 men and the Confederates probably more. This struggle was 
known as the battle of the Boydton Plank Road, and known among 
us as the battle of the Bull Pen. 

At the time of the attack by Heth 
on Pierce's brigade, five regiments, 
including the First Maine, formed a 
second line in rear of Pierce. As 
soon as Pierce's scattered forces had 
passed to our rear the five regiments 
were ordered forward at double-quick, 
firing as they advanced. As soon as 
the enemy were cleared from the field 
in our front, Colonel Shepherd with 
the right wing of our Regiment made 
a run down the Boydton Road and 
secured about 200 prisoners and a 
battle tiag, a force which, becoming 
broken from Heth's right, had taken 
refuge in the clump of trees on our 
Shepherd had passed down the road, 
who was in command of the left of the Regiment, assisted by his 
officers and men, made a rush for the guns, drove the Johnnies 
away, rescued the guns and took them safely within our lines. 

Probably our gallant Lieutenant Colonel Smith has never done 
so much hard pulling in the space of ten minutes as he did in helping 
personally to draw oft' the last piece. Captain Oakes was present 
and rendered valuable aid. Both he and Adjutant Gatchell were 
afterward honored with brevets for their part in this affair through 
the influence of General Smith of Hancock's staff. Had Lieutenant 
Colonel Smith and all the officers and men who showed conspicuous 
bravery in this affair been recognized by brevets, many more would 
have been in the list. Considering the small number of men in our 
Regiment at this time our loss was heavy ; indeed it was more than 
in any other engagement except at Spottsylvania and Petersburg. 
Ten of our men were killed or died of their wounds, 25 were 
wounded, and 12 were made prisoners. 

We withdrew at midnight and the whole army was behind the 
intrenchments at Petersburg, and Warren was back holding Reams 



Hhk;. (Ikx. H. H. pierce, 
Conunaiuliiig 1st Brigade, 3d Divis- 
ion, 2d Army Corps. 

left. As soon as Colonel 
Lieutenant Colonel Smith, 



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Station next morning. This practically closed our aggressive opera- 
tions for a month, and we had opportunity to make ourselves com- 
fortable, get ready for winter and what was to follow. 

On returning from the action on the Boydton Plank Road, Com- 
panies C, I), K, and F, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Smith, 
took position in rear of Fort Hell, near the mouth of the covered 
way, doing picket duty, while Colonel Shepherd with the other eight 
companies did guard duty at Cedar Level Station on the military 
railroad to prevent the enemy from repeating the cattle raid. 

November passed away without any incident or great move 
being made. General Hancock had been requested by the secretary 
of war to proceed North and, making use of the great popularity 
which his name had won, to organize a strong army corps, composed 
entirely of veterans who had been discharged. For this purpose he 
resigned the command of the second corps, and Gen. A. A. Hum- 
phreys, known to us as Chief of Staff of the Army of the Potomac, 
became its commander. 

Hundreds of our old comrades, ^^^^^^^^:^^ ^ vf^ 

both officers and men, who had recov- 
ered from their wounds and from 
sickness, now came back to us, rap- 
idly filling up our decimated ranks. 
The second army corps under Gen- 
eral Hancock had been the one 
marked organization upon which the 
commanding general could always 
rely for long, swift marches, unflinch- 
ing fortitude, and fearless fighting, 
but after the series of assaults on 
strongly intrenched positions from 
the Wilderness to the Poydton Plank 
Road, most of its old fighters had 
been killed, wounded, or otherwise disabled, so that at Reams Station 
and at the Poydton Plank Road the Confederate troops did not 
consider it so dangerous an undertaking as formerly to go fooling 
around the flanks of the old second corps. Some of its material 
was then recruits and conscripts, but now, behold ! our old veterans 
Hancock has indeed gone. Put our new com- 




:\Ia.i. (^kx. a. \. Hl^lPHKEYS, 
Commanding' 2d Army Corps. 



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GENERAL HUMPHREYS ASSUMES COMMAND. 151 

manders are tried soldiers, who earned their promotions in the field. 
Our new corps commander is every inch a soldier. Officers and 
men believe in him. The days of the second army corps are not 
numbered. It is to emerge again from its dispirited condition and 
do deeds of valor for its country not surpassed in history, even by 
its own former brilliant record. 

Soon after General Humphre\s assumed command we were 
relieved from the line and moved to a position near our old line 
around the Peebles house, far at the left. 

THE WELDON RAID. 

It had become apparent to the general commanding that the 
Confederates were using the Weldon Railroad by hauling supplies 
across from that road to the Southside Road below Reams Station. 
To prevent this use a force was sent out on the 6th of December, 
consisting of the fifth corps and our division of the second corps 
under General Warren, for the purpose of tearing up that road 
beyond the Nottoway River as far down as the junction and beyond. 

We struck the road beyond Jarratt's, marching over ground 
frozen enough to partly bear and partly break. We reached the 
railroad on the afternoon of December 7th and began tearing it up. 
Tearing up railroads became a regular trade with Union soldiers. 
The pioneers with draw bars would disconnect some rails, pass 
along the line of the road and loosen the sleepers with their crow- 
bars. A regiment would file along beside the road, men would take 
hold of the sleepers at the place where the pioneers started, lift up 
the track, sleepers and all, and turn it directly over, as a plow does 
a furrow. Other pioneers would follow^ along the overturned track 
and knock the rails off the sleepers. Another regiment would file 
along, pile up the sleepers on either side of the track, set them on 
fire, pile the rails on top of the burning sleepers with the middle 
directly over the fire. While the sleepers were being consumed the 
rails were being heated red-hot in the middle. Another regiment 
would march along, a couple of men would seize each end of a rail, 
hot in the middle, and start for a big pine tree, bend it around the 
tree until they came together, shift ends and go back, thus hooping 
the tree with railroad iron. It was a most weird and queer spec- 
tacle to look in either direction along this road during the night of 
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men were fitting about in the fire light, lugging heated rails and 
hooping trees. Some were taking advantage of the fires to make a 
dipper of coffee and take a bite from their haversacks. Here and 
there could be seen an aid-de-camp or a field officer, passing to and 
fro on horseback, directing the interesting operation. We encoun- 
tered Confederate cavalry beyond Belfield, and soon after were 
attacked by both cavalry and infantry and withdrew during the night. 
Our work having been accomplished, General Warren gave 
orders to return the next morning. None of us will ever forget the 
night of the 8th. The rain which began to fall in the evening 
changed to sleet, and the ground was covered with a coating of ice, 
thickening every hour. Trees were loaded, and the wind tearing 
through the branches made them snap and groan and shriek, like 
complaining phantoms. Colder still it grew all through the night, 
until a chilly-looking sun came creeping up to look out upon a crystal 
landscape. None of us who had occasion to be about in the night, 
breaking through the ice and snow into the mud, were in any humor 
to appreciate the beauties of the landscape in the morning. During 
our march toward Hicksford the negroes of the country all around 
had packed up their clothes, gathered some provisions, and prepared 
to fly to freedom. Their videttes had been watching our move- 
ments, so that as soon as we began our return they began to join us 
from all sides. They came in bands with bundles and bags, the 
strong assisting the weak, women toting their babies, leading their 
young. They had on the gayest costumes. They must have robbed 
the wardrobes of their masters and mistresses of every style of gar- 
ment from the time of George III. to the great Rebellion in America. 
Printed calico and white muslin and oh ! what hats. When our 
rations had been issued we found room for the old and feeble and 
little children in the wagons. Female slaves wei^e never recognized 
as wives or mothers, since they were not married and their children 
were the property of the masters. They were uncles and aunties, 
Cncle Toms and Aunt Sallys. 

After enjoying this comedy for a while we came to the Notto- 
way Kiver and Sussex Courthouse. Here it became apparent to us 
that the farmers roundabout were acting as guerrillas. They had 
been riding around our vicinity, picked up some of our sick men 
who Ivxl not been able to keep up and had murdered a number of 



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153 



them. The information was brought to us by the negroes, who 
offered to prove it by leading us to different places where the victims 
had been secretly buried during the night. Detachments were sent 
out to ascertain the truth, and it was found that the awful tale 
brought by the negroes was not fiction. We found bodies with 
throats cut, heads crushed in; some stabbed with knives and pitch- 
forks; one quartered with legs and arms cut off; others with their 
faces blown full of shot and powder. Retribution came suddenly 
for this whole section of country. The courthouse was burned with 
all the surrounding buildings; next the plantation of a rebel colonel 
on which three of our men had bqen assassinated, also a great num- 
ber of others on both sides of the road along our line of march, 
including the barns, cotton gins, and haystacks standing in the field. 
Nothing was left except the negro huts to serve the families of the 
supposed murderers. The last destruction noticed by any of us 
was a tavern not far from Nottoway, where some of the guerrillas 
were concealed in the cellar. 

We had taken up our pontoon bridges when we first crossed 
the Nottoway River to prevent the enemy from following us. These 
bridges were relaid by the engineers for our return. When we 
recrossed the river on the morning of the 9th we found that some 
of our men, who had been sick and too weak to keep up with the 
rapidly moving column, had not reached the Nottoway until after 
the pontoons had been taken up and were unable to cross. They 
had evidently been murdered in cold blood by some of the natives ; 
old men, women, or boys who were not in the Confederate Army. 
Some had been stabbed with knives, heads and limbs severed from 
their bodies by axes; others had been felled with shot from shot- 
guns, and others stabbed with pitchforks where they had taken 
refuge in an old tobacco house. The rage and indignation of officers 
and men aroused by these sights is indescribable. \\'hatever the 
facts about the verbal order, nobody knew, but it was spread about 
that General Warren had given an order to clean out the country. 
Squads of men could be seen going in difterent directions from the 
line of march toward every dwelling place. Buildings were set on 
fire, after giving the inhabitants time enough to take their things 
and get out. The inhabitants who cared to do so and the colored 
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burg. Those who wished to do so were allowed to go in other 
directions to friends where they had any. It was indeed a motley 
crowd that accompanied this army back to its camping place. The 
Richmond papers of the following day were filled with flaming 
denunciations and horrid threats of what would befall the accursed 
and despised Yankee in the days to come; but this was war, horrid, 
awful, destructive war. We were no longer guarding the property 
of defiant rebels. 

General (irant had mildly expressed the opinion, so the army 
understood, that before this war could end the South must be hurt, 
and the sooner they were hurt the less suffering would be required. 
We had a small snowstorm during our march back to Petersburg 
which rendered it impossible for us to make ourselves comfortable, 
as most of the boys had thrown away their blankets, and even the 
pine woods did not provide sufficient shelter to drive away the 
shivers or to make a bed very comfortable with five or six inches of 
snow upon the ground. 

Upon reaching our old camping ground at Petersburg, we set 
about constructing comfortable winter quarters in the woods a little 
in the rear of our line of defenses. The pine trees in the neighbor- 
hood were utilized in building log huts and other quarters for our 
comfort in the cold weather. An officer's tent, with a stockade made 
from splits taken out of pine trees, around the front of equal size 
with the tent, with a tent fly stretched over the top, a fireplace made 
from sticks and mud, lined with bricks smuggled in from an old 
house between the picket lines, and a floor made out of the floors of 
the same plantation residence, made a very comfortable office; 
while the tent in the rear served well as a sleeping place for two. 
Two beds made from crotched sticks stuck in the ground, with a 
stick from one to the other at head and foot, with long staves split 
from pines for a spring bed, pine boughs shingled on to these after 
the fashion of making a bed in the Maine woods; a rubber blanket 
for a cover, blankets and overcoat to wrap up in, made both a com- 
fortable and a wholesome sleeping room. 

No matter how hard the struggles of the past they are soon 
forgotten by young and energetic soldiers. A little rest and bounti- 
ful rations will make their spirits buoyant. In a few^ days officers 
nnrl iiM-n were comfortably housed. 



THE PENALTY FOR DESERTION. 1 55 

The days of December were spent in comparative comfort. 
We had full rations for man and beast. Our ranks were rapidly 
filling up. Field and company officers were returning. We had 
time for drill and discipline. Our recruits, mingled with the old 
soldiers, were gaining in efficiency. 

During all the latter part of the season desertions had been 
frequent by those who had joined the ranks of the different regi- 
ments as conscripts, substitutes, and bounty jumpers. To insure 
the effectiveness of the army in the future this had to be stopped 
by severe discipline. Several of these had deserted to the enemy 
and had afterward been captured by us. They were tried and sen- 
tenced to the ignominious death of hanging in the presence of the 
division to which they belonged. Other deserters were accorded 
the death of a soldier by being shot. On such unwelcome occasions 
the division would be drawn up in line, each of the three brigades 
forming one side of a square, the open side being reserved for the 
execution. Ranks would be opened wide; the front rank faced 
to the rear. Then the culprits were compelled to pass through 
between the ranks, each man following his coffin, the band playing 
the Rogue's March. Their march ended, their coffins were deposited 
at the grave, which had been previously dug. The condemned were 
blindfolded and seated upon their coffins. Near them were half a 
dozen guards with all rifles except one loaded by the marshal in 
charge. One rifle was loaded with a blank cartridge, so that no man 
knew whether he did the shooting. At a motion from the sword of 
the commanding officer all rifles were aimed at the breast of the 
condemned man. At the dropping of the sword all fired except 
two who had been previously designated. So frequent were the 
hangings of such deserters, from one to three at a time, that the old 
gallows were kept standing. 

In such a manner ended the year 1864 with the Army of the 
Potomac and the Army of the James. 

OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS. 

While these occurrences had been going on stirring events had 
happened elsewhere. Traitorous fiends, emissaries of the Southern 
Confederacy with their infamous allies in the North, had been per- 
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insurrections in the great cities ; they had planned to destroy the 
large cities l)y tire, to send death and destruction by introducing 
pestilential diseases into the great centers of Northern population. 
They had planned and tried to execute wholesale murders, directing 
their movements from Canada; but these atrocious plans had been 
discovered and frustrated and in some instances dealt with as their 
authors deserved. 

A presidential election occurred in November, after a campaign 
in which the arts of denunciation, vilification, abuse, and outrageous 
lying had been hurled against our patriotic President. Strange to 
say, the party making use of such diabolical means for the destruc- 
tion of our country had for its standard bearer, George B. McClellan, 
a former commander of the United States Army. 

Many of us believed then, and we believe now, that had his 
loyalty been more ardent our early campaign under his command 
would have been more effective. We came later to understand why 
the Confederate authorities so grievously lamented his removal from 
the command of the army. 

Cheering news had come to us from General Sheridan, com- 
manding the middle division, who had cleaned out the Shenandoah 
Valley, the highway of many of our former disasters. 

(General Sherman had destroyed Atlanta, and on the 15th of 
February started on the memorable and world-famed march to the 
sea, breaking through the shell of the Confederacy, trying its vitals, 
and living on the country. 

Hood's Confederate army had marched north to Nashville, 
Tennessee, locked horns with Generals Thomas and Skofield and 
been annihilated. Much to our joy General Sherman had reached 
Savannah, connected with the navy, captured Savannah, and was 
ready for further operations before Christmas. - When we crossed 
the James River in June, 1864, many of us believed that the Con- 
federacy was doomed to certain destruction. Now at Christmas 
time, 1864, we were certain that its end was drawing near. There 
were still great armies to annihilate, and more hard fighting was to 
be done. We must, however, wait until the mud dried up so the 
army could move, and this we were patiently doing, but all the time 
busy ])reparing for the final blow. We had been on our raid down 
to Kel field, Hicksford, and Sussex Courthouse. The great army of 



RESULT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 1 57 

sick and wounded, who had been away in Northern hospitals, con- 
tinued to return and swell our ranks with resolute veterans. We 
knew that Lee's army was every day being weakened by squads of 
Confederate deserters who were coming into our lines every night. 
Many of our captured men were being returned from Confederate 
prisons, almost invariably reaching the Union lines exhausted, hat- 
less, shoeless, and nearly naked. A spirit of intense indignation 
and even hatred for everything connected with the Confederacy 
was taking hold of every officer and man in our army. Every soul of 
them was resolving within himself, that if ever again he could move 
over the face of Virginia roads and fields he would do his utmost 
to finish the Confederacy. Moreover, the result of the presidential 
election had inspired us with confidence, that the overwhelming 
determination of the North was to finish this war successfully, no 
matter what the cost. We had learned that the great outcry made 
by the disunionists of the North was like the howling of a pack of 
wolves. They made a mighty big howl for so few. 

A bright countryman went into a city restaurant to get a meal. 
In looking over an extensive bill of fare, among the things cooked 
to order he saw "fried frogs' legs."' He had never eaten any and as 
he knew they must be small he ordered a dozen. When his $2.00 
dinner check came at the close of his meal the frogs' legs item 
was put down as $1.25. He kicked. He explained to the proprie- 
tor that frogs were plenty; he could get him all he wanted at a 
small price. He agreed to furnish the proprietor all he wanted for 
fifty cents a dozen, and contracted to furnish twenty dozen a day. 
After two days he returned bringing half a dozen. The proprietor 
complained because he had not kept his contract, for he had told 
him they were very plenty. The countryman said he had always 
thought so from the holler they made nights, but they were hard to 
find in the daytime. Copperheads and disunionists were very plenty 
and very noisy throughout the North when we were meeting with 
disasters. We often thought we would like to take a hand at con- 
verting them to good Union men when we got home ; but behold ! 
they too had very suddenly joined the Union. 

On February 5 th we started early in the morning by the Vaughan 
road on an expedition which was little different from the one of 
the 27th of October, but this time the fifth corps was on the turning 



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(iKN. K. 1)K TKOBKIANI). 

(•(iimuandiiiR 1st Brigade, 'Ad Division, 

2(1 Army Corps. 







(APT. HUDSON .SAWYER, 

Aifl-de-camp, 
General De Trobriand's Staff. 



wing. The cavalry was ordered by General Humphreys to force the 
passage of Hatcher's Run. They could not cross on account of the 
mire and slashing. Our division, under General De Trobriand, was 
ordered to clear the way. While the sharpshooters occupied the 
enemy in front, General De Trobriand, followed by the 99th and 
I loth Pennsylvania, crossed over and carried the enemy's position 
on the Run. The other regiments immediately followed, while the 
pioneers constructed a temporary bridge for the cavalry and artillery. 
The 40th New York and 105th Pennsylvania pursued the enemy 
beyond the old sawmill. The balance of our brigade hurriedly threw 
up a semicircular line of intrenchments, covering the Vaughan road 
and also the road leading to Armstrong's Mill. While this work was 
going on our second brigade joined our left, stretching out to make a 
connection with the fifth corps, which was momentarily expected to 
join us farther up the Run but had not yet appeared, when the enemy 
made a violent attack between the third brigade of our division and the 
second division of our corps. This w^as a favorite method with the 
Confederates. They knew perfectly every foot of the ground and 
were on the alert to take advantage of any accident of the land or 
of any small gaps left open between our organizations. They 
attempted here to repeat the tactics of the 27th of October. Between 
(General Smythe's left brigade and McAllister's brigade of our divi- 



WE HOLD OUR NEW POSITION. 1 59 

sion, they were so roughly handled they were glad to retire to their 
intrenchments after suffering severe loss. 

On the next day the fifth corps, under (ieneral Warren, did not 
succeed so well. Warren had extended his lines farther to the west 
than the extreme of Hancock's line on October 27th, where he 
struck against a considerable rebel force. Crawford's division of 
the fifth corps was driven back in great disorder on xAyres' division. 

Our division had been sent to the support of Warren's fifth 
corps. Our strong position and the intrenchments we had thrown 
up the evening before were of great help in re-forming his troops 
and stopping the enemy. We held on to our new position. The 
writer has no doubt every man in the First Maine will remember 
that movement and how we took down our old huts near the Peebles 
house, hauled them in teams to our new works and put them up 
again. They will also remember strengthening this captured posi- 
tion and covering it with an immense abatis and stretching it out to 
our picket line, a breadth of a thousand or twelve hundred yards. 
All this was in preparation for striking the decisive blow when the 
opportunity should arrive. These operations consumed our time 
during the balance of February and the early days of March, 1865. 



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Brio. Gex. R. M( ALLISTER, 

Couimaiuling 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 2(1 Army ( "orps 



CHAPTER XIV. 

RK(;iNXINfi OF THE END GENERAL LEE'S ATTEMPT TO CUT OUT 

CAPTURE AND RECAPTURE OF FORT STEADMAN TERRIBLE 

SLAUGHTER OF CONFEDERATES WHERE OUR MONUMENT STANDS 

THE BLOW WE STRUCK BACK OUR LINES ADVANCED 

GETTING READY TO FINISH THE CONFEDERACY EVENTFUL 

DAYS RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG TAKEN FLIGHT OF PRES- 
IDENT DAVIS WILD REJOICING IN THE NORTH. 

On the morning of the 25th of March all of us not on duty 
were soundly sleeping. We had been cautioned to be on the alert 
and watch for any attempt on the part of the enemy to escape. At 
the first dawn of the gray morning our sentinels awoke us and our 
ears were greeted by the sound of a violent cannonade, mingled 
with the distant rolling of musketry. 

(General and staff, and everybody else, were instantly tumbling 
into their clothes, horses were saddled, and in an incredibly short 
time the regiment, brigade, and division were under arms. An aid 
from General Mott came in at a gallop, informed us that the enemy 
had surprised and captured Fort Steadman, with two or three of our 
batteries, and with his skirmishers had captured the City Point 
Railroad. 

While we were waiting for orders to march we hastily got some 
coffee, ate a hurried breakfast, crammed some hard-tack, coffee, and 
salt into our haversacks, and were ready to be off in an instant. 
About nine o'clock news came to the Regiment that Hartranft's 
division of the ninth corps had retaken Fort Steadman and the 
adjoining batteries, that 2,000 prisoners were left in our hands, and 
that the enemy's loss in killed and wounded was enormous. 

About the time Fort Steadman was retaken the writer had 
ridden out to the scene of the conflict to ascertain the facts and to 
discover the fate of the railroad, and was in time to take a look from 
between batteries six and seven, at the right of Fort Steadman, at 
the fate of the Confederates in our own former slaughter pen between 



ORDERS TO CAPTURE EXEMV's PICKET LINE. 



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HEADQl'AUTKK.S iJoMi; TKooF HOUSE. 

Partly under ground, at Fort Steadnian, siege of Petersburg, ('liinmey to right, top 

shot off, trees peppered witli bullets and perforated aiul splintered by artillery, 

mostly done on June n:, 17 and is, 18(;4. 



the Hare house and the race course. For a second time it was cov- 
ered with dead and wounded, this time with the enemy's fallen as 
thickly as it had been with our own on the iSth of June, 1S64, day 
of our famous charge. 

It was now for us to move. About noon General Mott with 
General Humphreys came near to where we were and established 
headquarters at the Smith house. General Meade had given orders 
to capture all the enemy's fortified picket lines in front of the sixth 
and second corps, and to push on further if opportunity offered. 
The first division, holding the right, attacked first. The 20th Indiana 
and the 73d New York of our first brigade were thrown forward in 
our front, under command of Colonel Andrews, and carried all the 
enemy's rifle pits and captured 100 prisoners. McAllister's second 
brigade moved immediately afterward with equal success, but in a 
short time he was in trouble. Our second division was slow in 



j^, THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

followino the movement, and in consequence of the shape of the 
ground McAllister's left was in the air. The enemy attacked on his 
left and retook the rifle pits, when the 120th New York and the nth 
Massachusetts promptly returned to the charge and dislodged the 
rebels a second time. 

The enemy evidently being intent upon recovering their lost 
<Tround, General De Trobriand hurried forward the 124th New York, 
followed instantly by the whole brigade. The head of the brigade 
had scarcely crossed over a marshy creek, crossing the road, w^hen 
a shower of shells from the enemy landed with such precision as to 
show his careful knowledge of the ground and distance. The firing 
was coming closer and closer, and, mingled with the repeated cheers 
of the squealing kind we understood so well, revealed the fact that 
the rebels were again charging the third brigade with success. 

The left of the 73d New York had been fairly swept away and 
things were looking badly. Now was the time for the fighters of the 
First Maine. Immediately upon an order from Colonel Shepherd 
they rushed into the fray, hustled the Johnnies back in great confu- 
sion, and supported by the iioth Pennsylvania captured and held 
all that the 20th Indiana and the 73d New York had gained from 
the enemy two hours before. 

Immediately following this, McAllister, feeling himself now 
strongly supported, retook the offensive and his brigade charged up 
for the third time into the pits so obstinately contested. We all remem- 
ber General McAllister, for he was a character. In the division and 
among the staff of^cers he was known as "Mother" McAllister, 
but with all his effeminate ways and kindly bearing he was the 
noblest Roman of them all. He could discover his opportunity and 
take advantage of it with the rapidity and precision of a pugilist. 
There was little bluster or bravado about McAllister, but he got 
there all the same. 

Our troubles were not yet over, for the enemy had not given up 
the struggle. Between our brigade and the first division was low 
and marshy ground, covered with a thicket, where the enemy had 
not thought it necessary to establish a line of rifle pits. It was here 
they tried again. The right of our brigade was held by the 40th 
New York and 99th Pennsylvania, both regiments made up largely 
of conscripts. This was their first fight and they would bear watch- 



CAPTURING enemy's PICKET TRENCHES. 1 63 

ing. It was feared the uproar in the woods and the firing along the 
front of the first division would shake them out of their position, but 
still they showed a cool front and held on, not being themselves 
directly engaged ; but when they saw the enemy, which had been 
driven from Miles' front, rush upon them with a dash which charac- 
terized Lee's old soldiers, when they heard the minie balls begin to 
sing around their ears and spatter in the trees like hail on a skylight 
window, they began to hustle for the rear in fine style with their 
heads down and backs bent low. 

As they were scooting across the road which ran in rear of the 
line. General De Trobriand with his staff and orderlies was coming 
up from the rear. They fairly made a cavalry charge in detail, with 
drawn sabres, upon these fleeing conscripts. They first shouted 
commands for them to return to their lines, which they hesitated 
some about obeying. Their comical appearance so amused the 
general and his officers that they could not help laughing at the 
fugitives. The laughter seemed to have more effect upon them than 
the oaths and whacks of the sabres, for they immediately followed 
the general and his staff back to their lines, where the old soldiers 
had held on firmly and had even passed on further, beyond the marsh. 

In this encounter Colonel Weygant's 124th New York had been 
left a little in the rear behind a swell of the ground. His men were 
all lying down so as not to be seen by the enemy. On issuing from 
the woods in their charge, the rebels seeing nothing before them but 
a line of skirmishers in retreat did not hesitate to pursue rapidly. 
This was what Colonel Weygant had foreseen. He allowed the 
assailants to advance as closely as possible without seeing his men. 
When they had approached within about forty paces the whole regi- 
ment arose as one man, poured a deadly volley into the ranks of 
the charging Johnnies, and without reloading charged on the run 
with the bayonet. It was all done so quickly that the Johnnies were 
surrounded without having time to recover. As it was, Colonel 
Weygant had captured the 59th Alabama Regiment with its com- 
mander. In this affair Colonel Andrews of the 20th Indiana was 
wounded, as was also Colonel Biles of the 99th Pennsylvania. In 
this engagement we lost one of our best officers, Capt. Samuel J. 
Oakes of Company I. Our brave Lieut. Hudson Sawyer, aid to 
General De Trobriand, was also severely hurt by being thrown from 
his horse. 



i64 



THE FIRST -MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



In addition to the 4,000 men sacrificed by General Lee in his 
short-Hved surprise of Fort Steadman, we buried in front of our 
bri<^ade 56 dead rebels, while their loss in wounded was at least 400, 
and a large number of prisoners fell into our hands. This day's 
events proved much more than a serious check to General Lee. It 
was a complete failure of his first plan to cut himself out from Rich- 
mond and escape. There was but one more move for him to make. 
That was to abandon Richmond and Petersburg, move suddenly 
south, join his forces to Johnston's and transfer the seat of war to 
its birthplace in South Carolina, the very heart of the now groaning 
Confederacy. General Lee had hoped that, in the event of his fail- 
ure to cut out by way of Fort Steadman, he could at least capture 
and hold our communications with City Point. This would compel 
General Grant to concentrate his forces at that point, thus giving 
the Confederates an opportunity to pass our left and escape by the 
Lynchburg Railroad and the highways leading along the Appo- 
mattox, which he could not do with the second and fifth corps 
intrenched along the west side of Hatcher's Run. We not only 
speedily recaptured Fort Steadman, but our lines were advanced all 
along our front. We had received orders to send away all our sur- 
plus baggage of every kind, reserving only such things as we could 
carry. The troops to be left behind in the defenses of Petersburg 
were cautioned to be extremely watchful, lest the enemy should 
escape. General Parke's ninth corps was left in the lines in front 
of Petersburg with one colored division from the Army of the James, 
the dismounted cavalry, and the headquarters guards. General 
Weitzel was left in command of all the troops north of the James. 
(ieneral Wright's sixth corps was stretched out across Hatcher's 
Run to the left of the ninth. General Sheridan with his 12,000 
cavalry, General Warren with the fifth corps, Ge'neral Ord with the 
eighteenth corps, and our own second corps were to constitute 
the great moving army. We had orders to move out promptly on the 
29th of March. General Ord's eighteenth corps had taken a posi- 
tion on the left of the sixth. Our second corps was on the left of the 
eighteenth. General Warren's fifth corps extended from the Boyd- 
ton Plank Road far to our left, when General Sheridan opened the 
i)all on the 31st of March by his movement on Five Forks. The 
30th had been lost to us by a severe downpour of rain, which ren- 



BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS. 1 65 

dered the roads impassable for trains or artillery; but if the roads 
were impassable we corduroyed them, rain or no rain. During the 
day and night of the 30th General Lee had massed all the troops 
he could spare from his long lines, without stripping them, on his 
extreme right, in the vicinity of Five Forks and along our front. 
On the 31st our brigade was in reserve behind Miles' first division, 
which was massed beyond the Boydton Plank Road. Warren, who 
had been in the same place, pushed his corps further out against 
the White Oak Road, where the Confederates had assembled a 
large force. 

At the appearance of the first brigade, which was skirmishing 
in advance of the fifth corps, they threw themselves heavily on Ayres' 
division. Their first blow was so heavy that this division fell back 
upon Crawford's division, throwing them also into some disorder, but 
Warren was formed in echelon so that the assault, furious upon the 
first division, was feeble on the second and died out against the 
third. Griffin's division stood firm. We could hear all this, we 
could even hear the yells and the hurrahs, but the woods prevented 
us from seeing anything but smoke. We could only remain silent 
and watch. We were somewhat stirred by seeing our first division, 
under General Miles, leap over their works and disappear into the 
woods in the direction of the battle. A corps aid brought the 
information that he was charging the Confederate left, which was 
retreating before Warren, and that we were to support Miles and 
attack the enemy if he came in sight. 

During the advance of the first division. Miles had left an 
interval between his right and the Boydton Plank Road, which our 
division suddenly moved in to fill up. In our front the enemy's 
skirmishers had been driven behind his main lines, from which our 
sharpshooters and pickets prevented their advancing a second time. 
While this engagement was going on between Warren and the Con- 
federates along the \^'hite Oak Road, Sheridan had pushed his 
cavalry forward from Dinwiddle Courthouse and seized Five Forks. 
The enemy which had been thrown back from Warren's front, 
desiring to retrieve their disaster, had moved oft' to their right, 
joined their cavalry and so severely attacked Sheridan that he had 
to retire toward Dinwiddle. Taking advantage of some intrench- 
ments he had thrown up before, he closed up, concentrated his line. 



J 56 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

and, facing the enemy with his dismounted cavalry, gave him so 
warm a reception that he could make no further advance. This 
advance by Lee was a fatal error. 

During the night Lee recalled his two divisions to Five Forks. 
The general commanding now sent orders for General Warren to 
hasten to Sheridan's aid. This order did not reach General Warren 
until after nightfall. Ayres' division, however, moved out promptly, 
and would have reached Sheridan at Dinwiddie in good season but 
for the delay caused by the destruction of a bridge over Gravelly 
Run. Ayres took a crossroad to the right, and, coming out on the 
road from Dinwiddie to Five Forks at daylight, found the cavalry 
there. From this on the pursuit begun by the cavalry was continued 
by both. The cavalry first struck the enemy in the vicinty of Five 
Forks, and, by a number of vigorous charges, pushed the enemy 
back into their intrenchments. At the same time General Sheridan 
ordered the fifth corps forward on the right so as to turn the Con- 
federates left and double up their flank, while General Merritt 
should keep them busy on the other flank by an active demonstration. 

As the enemy had not met Warren they thought him still in the 
vicinity of the Boydton Road, and having had to fight only with 
cavalry so far, which was pressing upon their front and attacking 
their right, they believed Merritt's move to be the development of 
a turning attack on their right and bent all their forces in this direc- 
tion to meet it. JJut, in the meantime. General Warren was steadily 
and silently drawing up on their left, and, to make the movement 
more certain. General McKenzie, who had recently joined the army 
with a cavalry reinforcement, had received orders to sweep the White 
( )ak koad between Five Forks and the point where it struck the 
right of Lee's line. He met some of the enemy and drove them 
back toward the Boydton Road, thus averting 'the danger of an 
attack on Warren's right by the enemy. 

Late in the afternoon Warren's corps struck the isolated Con- 
federates at Five Forks. Ayres' division immediately changed front, 
charged the Confederate works, and captured more than a thousand 
prisoners. Griffin's division charged shortly after, when Crawford 
came up on the only road over which the enemy could retreat. The 
latter, finding himself hemmed in and attacked on three sides at 
once, could do no less than lav down his arms and surrender. The 



A CRUSHING P.LOW BY SHERIDAN. 167 

enemy still firmly held some ground behind a traverse on their 
extreme right. A bayonet charge here by the fifth corps carried 
this line and made its defenders prisoners. The small portion of 
them which escaped were hotly pursued by the cavalry of Merritt 
and McKenzie. The losses to the enemy were not less than 5,000 
prisoners, besides the artillery, arms, and colors left in the hands of 
the victorious Sheridan. The quick eye of that skillful engineer, 
our corps commander, discovered that General Lee had put a large 
part of his army in an extremely dangerous position by allowing it 
to pursue Sheridan back toward Dinwiddle. While these things were 
going on in the vicinity of Five Forks, we were constantly changing 
positions. General Humphreys was conforming his line and situa- 
tion to the movements of the fifth corps. During the absence of 
our first division, which had gone with Warren to Sheridan's assist- 
ance, our left had drawn to the return intrenchments which covered 
the Boydton Road. In the afternoon of the ist we were moved into 
a rear line toward the sawmill, where it was feared an attack in force 
would be made. When we learned that Sheridan was back at Five 
Forks, we were moved again into our old position. While the troops 
were filing into their old intrenchments in the darkness, we heard a 
great clamor prolonged by hurrahs in our front. We expected a 
sudden attack and got ready for it, but it did not come. We learned 
afterward that it was the Confederates in their lines cheering at the 
news that Sheridan's whole army had been destroyed, cavalry, infan- 
try, and artillery. Their joy was short; other and more discouraging 
news came to them with our advance upon their lines. Demonstra- 
tions from our front were constantly made during the night to 
ascertain whether the Confederate army were continuing to hold 
their lines. During the night three regiments charged in the dark- 
ness and carried the enemy's rifle pits, occupied by their pickets, but 
behind them was a thick wood and fallen trees. They could go 
no farther. They had demonstrated that the enemy's lines were 
still fully manned. The advance of these men into the darkness, 
the blazing out of their impetuous attack, the silence with which 
they maintained their position, and the great deliberateness with 
which they found their way back to the intrenchments and came in 
when the way was clear, was a splendid illustration of what magnifi- 
cent soldiers our volunteers had become. 



J 58 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

The commander of the army had now but one fear, and that 
fear was shared in by every intelHgent officer and soldier. After the 
crushing blow given by Sheridan and Warren, General Lee could 
no longer hope to fight a battle. Would he get away.^ Certainly 
not if we could prevent it. Every officer and man in this whole mag- 
nificent army was fully determined to finish the rebellion here and 
now. What would happen on the morrow? 

During the night of the ist of April every officer in charge of 
any future movement was on the alert. Every intelligent com- 
mander or staff officer knew that General Lee's attack upon Sheri- 
dan's forces had inflicted upon the Confederate army a loss they 
could ill afford. All felt that the coming day would bring to us a 
decisive battle or a race after a fleeing enemy. After Sheridan's 
victory at iMve Forks, General Grant feared that General Lee would 
take advantage of the night to evacuate his w^orks around Petersburg 
and Richmond; that he might possibly attempt to retreat south over 
the White Oak Road. To make this impossible, he had sent Gen- 
eral Miles with our first division to reinforce Sheridan, and had 
ordered frequent attacks all along the lines around Petersburg and 
Richmond for the purpose of keeping the Confederates in their works. 
About two o'clock on the morning of the 2d of April our brigade 
moved back in rear of the lines to our old position across the Boyd- 
ton Road. We received information that at four o'clock the sixth 
and ninth corps were to assault in front of Fort Fisher, near the 
Peebles house, and the other in front of Fort Hell, two of our old 
positions with which we were very familiar. Our comrades will all 
remember filing along the corduroy road and going into the intrench- 
ments on both sides of the ]]oydton Road, and crossing it behind 
the Ranie house, where (General Humphreys h^d his headquarters. 
'I'hey will remember the five batteries that were there with guns in 
position, their limbers and teams in the rear with ammunition 
wagons close by and near the Boydton Road, with wagons open and 
the artillerymen at their posts. What excellent soldiers these 
artillerymen were ! What generals our own captains had become! 

It was daylight now. Shells from the enemy's three redoubts 
m our front rained around them. Bullets were whistling through 
the air. Some of our troops had got astray in moving up so that 
these guns were practically uncovered. The heavy firing in front 
and the whistling of bullets indicated that the enemy was near. 



TWO VIEWS AT FORT HEI.L 



169 




}5omb Proof in Fort Hell. Top of cliiniiiey knocked off by a shell. Sticks in top 
standing- in holes made by mortal- shells. 




\u\\ W1I..1, lU .1 uttxt i. li.i.ii wii ..-, V, ,.1 ,x> ;o rig-ht and rear. 



I JO THK FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

If our men gave way they would not be long in reaching our 
guns. Our last regiment, however, quickly came up, the enemy's 
attacking force lost ground, and the firing became more distant. 
Now we were listening to the uproar of artillery and roll of musketry 
coming from the assaults of Parke and Wright, over in front of 
Petersburg. Word soon came up that Parke had carried the first 
line at rebel Fort Mahone, that Wright had carried everything 
before him in front of Fort Fisher. Ord had also broken through 
near Hatcher's Run with two divisions of the twenty-fourth corps 
under General Gibbon. The two corps united, turning their faces 
to the right near Petersburg. It was now our turn, for it was light 
enough to distinguish men in the enemy's works. Every gun in 
our batteries opened fire upon the three redoubts ; sharpshooters 
posted in trees picked off the enemy's gunners, so that their reply 
was feeble and soon subsided. In twenty minutes we saw a spout 
of earth and timbers ascend into the air from one of their redoubts. 
They had blown up their bombproof. (tUus were disappearing 
from their embrasures. The Johnnies were leaving their lines. 

It took a little time for our extended lines to be drawn in and 
form a line to advance on both sides of the Boydton Road. While 
this was being done, our pioneers had dug down the breastworks 
across the road, tore away the abatis; the batteries had limbered 
up, ammunition w^agons had repaired their losses and were ready to 
move with the troops over across the enemy's works. The move- 
ment was so rapid, the enemy had no time to make his arrangements. 
We passed inside their works and found their tents standing, their 
breakfasts cooking on the fire, their hospital tents standing, their sur- 
geons working over the wounded of the night and that early morning. 
Some of our own prisoners captured in the day and night before 
came running to meet us. One of our own First Maine men came 
toward us driving a rebel ambulance loaded with some wounded 
prisoners, who had fallen into the enemy's hands. 

The confusion of precipitate flight was everywhere. Our ow^n 
men were wild with enthusiasm, — nothing could stop them. The 
Johnnies were on the run and they must be after them. All that 
portion of Lee's army which was in front of our corps, seeing its 
road to Petersburg cut off by Wright and Parke, retreated in the 
direction of Sutherland Station on the Lynchburg Railroad. They 



FOLLOWIN(i UP OUR ADVANTAGES. 171 

were not allowed to escape, however. At the news of the successful 
assault General Sheridan had hurried our first division back to 
General Humphreys. General Miles returned in haste by the way 
of the White Oak Road. Discovering on the way the current of 
retreating Johnnies from our front, he began a most energetic pur- 
suit along the Claiborne Road. He overtook them near the station, 
where he met an obstinate resistance, but General Sheridan was 
quickly upon them, overlapping their right. They got away and 
lied in the wildest disorder, taking the road which ran along the 
Appomattox, leaving behind them their guns and many prisoners. 
We were now leaving behind us in our rapid march all the fine for- 
tifications with which rebel engineers had covered the approaches 
to Burgess Mill, and were hurrying along toward Petersburg over 
the now open and free Boydton Road. 

What a beautiful day! It was Sunday. We had come up out 
of the marshes, the mud, the fiats, and the jungles. We were out in 
cleared and cultivated fields. The spring sun was shining brightly, 
the air was balmy, the new foliage was bright, the peach trees were 
in blossom, the enemy in full retreat. What a change in Nature! 
What a change for us ! 

The men marched and ran with joyous glee. On the right and 
left we were picking up prisoners in scjuads of tens and twenties and 
fifties and hundreds. They knew the war had been finished by a 
blow. They seemed glad and accepted captivity as a happy relief. 
We passed out of the woods, across a wide plain. In passing a 
house about fifty yards from the road we discovered a group of 
officers. Aids were hurrying in and out the door. An electric cry 
rang through the ranks. There is General Grant ! He was sitting 
on the veranda, with the conventional cigar in mouth. Staff officers 
came and w^ent for instructions, horsemen galloped in and out. 
Everything was hurry and excitement except the commanding 
general. He appeared as calm as the morning, yet the radiance of 
victory shown forth from his countenance. 

Our struggles were, however, not yet over. We heard the 
grumbling of cannon between us and Petersburg and knew there 
was still a line of inner works, important enough to give the enemy 
at least a chance to hold us up while he could collect himself. He 
was even now endeavoring to strengthen himself by attacking some 



1^2 THE FIRST MAIXE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

of the positions taken this morning b}' the ninth corps. At about 
this point information came to us that Gen. A. P. Hill had just been 
killed in one of these assaults. The remainder of this beautiful 
Sabbath day passed in putting artillery in position, in conforming 
our movements to those of the sixth and twenty-fourth corps, so that 
we could carry the city by assault should the enemy attempt to 
hold it. Assault was, however, unnecessary. General Lee had no 
idea of attempting to hold either Petersburg or Richmond. The 
Confederates were bending all their energies to get away from the 
indomitable and energetic commander of the Union armies. General 
Sheridan, discovering that the help of his command was not neces- 
sary to finish the fight at Petersburg and Richmond, immediately 
started out to run down the remnants of Pickett's and Bushrod 
Johnson's retreating troops, and also those who had left the front 
of our own second corps on the Confederate right wing. 

News of the events of this Sabbath morning reached Jefferson 
Davis, the President of the so-called Confederate States, by a 
dispatch which was brought him while he was attending church in 
Richmond. 

We have noticed that General Miles with our first division had 
gone by order of General Grant to reinforce Sheridan, and we left 
him pursuing the enemy along the Claiborne Road and overtaking 
them at Sutherland Station. This position, naturally a strong and 
defensible one, was also strongly intrenched. When Sheridan came 
up, Miles asked and received from him permission to make an 
assault, which Sheridan gave. Meantime General Humphreys, with 
our second and third divisions, in obedience to orders from General 
Grant, had swung to the right and was marching toward Petersburg 
along the Boydton Road, thus leaving our first division alone 
assaulting at Sutherland Station, where it was twice repulsed. 

Upon hearing of General Miles' position. General Grant ordered 
(ieneral Humphreys to send a division to his relief, and our division 
at once started in the direction of Sutherland Station. General 
Sheridan, before starting to sweep toward Petersburg, had sent 
General Merritt with his cavalry to the west to attack some Confed- 
erate cavalry that had assembled there. Merritt having driven 
these back to the Appomattox River, General Sheridan then striking 
the enemy at Sutherland Station on the reverse side from where 



CAPTURE OF SUTHERLAND STATION. 



173 



Miles was with our first division, the two together captured the 
place, with a large number of prisoners and some artillery, and put 
the remaining portions of three Confederate corps into a rapid run 
for safety; General Sheridan's cavalry following them until nightfall 
put a stop to the pursuit. 

General Miles bivouacked for the night near Sutherland Station. 
During this night of Sunday, April 2d, our line was strongly 
intrenched from the Appomattox above Petersburg around to the 
same river below that city. No chance was now left for (ieneral 
Lee to escape south, either through or around Petersburg, or by 
way of the Southside Railroad, for all these were in our possession. 



CHAPTER XV. 

EVACUATION OF I'KTERSF.URG AND RICHMOND SEVEN DAYS' RACE 

DEATONSVILLE AND SAILOR's CREEK HIGH BRIDGE FARM- 

ViLLE FORA(iING SOLDIERS' DAY AT APPOMATTOX THE SUR- 
RENDER OF LEE. 

After the events of Sunday morning which we have been relat- 
ing, General Lee informed the authorities at Richmond that he could 
hold out no longer than night and there was some doubt whether he 
could even do that. 

We have noticed that Jefferson Davis immediately left his place 
of devotion at the church. The congregation w^as also at once dis- 
missed, with a notice that there would be no evening service. The 
President and Cabinet of the so-called Confederate States made 
hurried preparation and departed in great haste from their capital 
at Richmond for some more southern site and a safer location, 
taking along with them a fair supply of gold, much of it in English 
sovereigns. 

During the night General Lee evacuated both Petersburg and 
Richmond. All the troops he could gather were directed to assem- 
ble at Amelia Courthouse, his object being to reach Burkesville 
Junction and get away by the Southside Railroad and, if possible, 
join General Johnston and make an effort to crush General Sherman 
before (General Grant's army could get there. 

General (irant had held most of the troops aloof from the 
intrenchments, so as to be ready to start in pursiiit at once. During 
the night our corps had been sent to General Sheridan. General 
Grant, becoming assured that Lee would try to move south, notified 
Sheridan and directed him to move out on the Danville Railroad, on 
the south side of the Appomattox, as speedily as possible, but the 
vigilant Sheridan needed no notice. He replied to his chief that 
some of his command was already nine miles out. The whole army 
was immediately set in motion. The occupation of the two cities 
was left principally to the twenty-fifth army corps, composed of col- 
ored troops. One division of this corps, which had been temporarily 



THE EVACUATION OF RICHMOND. 175 

placed under the command of General Parke, occupied Petersburg, 
while the other division, under command of General Weitzel, took 
possession of Richmond. This was the greatest and most supreme 
humiliation that could have happened to the arrogant and haughty 
dwellers in the Confederate capital and in the hotbed of secession, 
Petersburg, which we had so long besieged. Now at the very seat 
of their overturned Government, their lives, their property, and their 
all were placed under the protection of the black men to whom they 
and their ancestors had for two centuries refused a place in the 
common family of humanity. What a change I What a punishment! 

In their flight from their capital the Confederates had, whether 
purposely or not, set fire to the best portion of Richmond. When 
General Weitzel's troops entered, the city was in flames. The work 
of extinguishing them and saving the city was immediately begun 
by the black troops. The scenes about the city when the last of 
the Confederate troops were passing out and the first of the victori- 
ous Nationals were marching through its streets must have been 
ludicrous as it was pitiful. Disrespect of the Nation's power, defi- 
ance of its authority, was no longer in order, even if it must be 
enforced at the hands of black troops, formerly slaves. 

Under our discreet commanders, order was immediately restored, 
homes and property were rendered safe. It is needless to remind 
our readers that no time was lost in freeing the Union prisoners, so 
long confined in Libby Prison, Castle Thunder, and the pens on 
Belle Isle. It will not be thought outrageous or inhuman that the 
infamous Turner, keeper and commander of Libby Prison, was 
immediately immured and confined in the vilest dungeon, where 
death had claimed so many Union soldiers by his direction. Other 
prominent rebels were promptly put in place of the liberated ^'an- 
kees. The whole business quarter, the richest and most thickly 
inhabited portions of Richmond, w^hich Jefferson Davis and his 
associates had delivered to the Hames, were reduced to ashes. The 
rest of the city would have shared the same fate but for the efforts 
of Weitzel's colored soldiers, who saved two-thirds. At the time of 
this writing evidences may still be seen in Richmond which tell of 
what kind were these men who sacrificed not only their country, 
but their city, to a depraved ambition, having for its sole object the 
preserving of their barbarous rule over a people of another color, 
who had been brought here by no choice of their own. 



Q THE FIRSr MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

General Lee had selected his route from Chesterfield to Amelia 
Courthouse and the Danville Railroad by the way of Goodes Bridge 
across the Appomattox. He expected to receive rations there and 
to proceed to Ikukesville Junction at the point of intersection with 
the Lynchburg Railroad. If he could succeed in reaching Burkes- 
ville before our troops could get there to oppose him, he felt nearly 
certain of forming a junction with Johnston, who was reaching out 
from Smithfield, North Carolina, to meet him. Burkesville Junction 
was, therefore, the goal. The Confederates had the start by ten or 
twelve hours, but our route was shorter. The two armies started on 
nearly parallel roads. General Lee's army on the north side of the 
Appomattox and General Grant's moving up the south side. Gen- 
eral Sheridan had moved out from Sutherland and around Five 
Forks, closely followed by the fifth corps. The second corps was 
closely following the fifth corps, with the sixth following the second. 

(ieneral Ord, with the greater part of the Army of the James, 
marched along the line of the Lynchburg Railroad, with the ninth 
corps stringing along to protect that road. Thus the Union army 
was moving in two columns : General Ord toward Burkesville, and 
General Meade took a straight line to strike the Danville Road 
further north, at Jettersville Station. 

We crossed Namozine Creek and encamped for the night at 
Nintercomac Creek. A heavy rain on the night of the 3d had ren- 
dered the roads almost impassable, but we corduroyed, patched, 
mended, and pushed on, reaching Deep Creek by the night of 
the 4th. 

We were much delayed by the cavalry, which had the right of 
way. Marching again, a little after midnight on the night of the 
5th, we reached Jettersville at about three o'clock, the road having 
again been taken fiom the infantry by the cavah-y. At Jettersville 
we went into position on both the right and left of the fifth corps. 
Now 16,000 or 18,000 men, with the cavalry intrenched far in 
advance, barred the way of General Lee, and stood between him and 
his coveted goal, Burkesville Junction. He did not feel himself strong 
enough to attack such a force. Fate seemed against General Lee. 
He expected to find supplies for his famishing army at Amelia 
( 'ourthouse, for they had been ordered to meet him there. A large 
train had been ordered from Danville on the 2d and was to wait for 



GENERAL LEE EVADING A BATTLE. 



77 



him at Amelia Courthouse, but the fleeing Confederate Government 
had need for the cars and had ordered the conductor of the train 
to come immediately to Richmond. He obeyed, taking the rations 
with him. He did not understand that they wanted only the empty 
cars. General Lee's army was, therefore, to meet a hungry disap- 
pointment at Amelia Courthouse. They lost the whole of the 5th of 
April foraging in the neighborhood, picking up only a very scanty 
supply from a country already greatly impoverished by passing and 
repassing armies. So by this delay the chance of reaching Johnston 
was lost. 

On the night of the 5th the Union commanders were confident 
that they would be able to bring the Confederate army to a stand 
and to an engagement about the vicinity of Amelia Courthouse on 
the following day. In accordance with this purpose, very early on 
the morning of the 6th, the second, fifth, and sixth corps, in the 
order named from left to right, moved up the line of the Danville 
Road toward Amelia Courthouse, where it was hoped we should 
meet Lee's army. General Lee, however, had concluded he could 
not break through Jettersville to Burkesville. He had started on his 
retreat in the early part of the night, and all through the hours of the 
darkness had been hurrying in his flight westward, and so while our 
three Union corps were actually moving backward toward Rich- 
mond in line of battle, Lee's Confederate columns, passing around 
the left of our corps, were already far on their way toward Rice's 
Station on the railroad northwest of Burkesville. 

We afterward learned that Longstreet, who was in advance, 
had arrived at that point at daylight on the 6th. The discovery of 
Lee's long lines trailing by our left flank caused a sudden change 
of direction. Our march on Amelia Courthouse was instantly 
abandoned, and the fifth, second, and sixth corps now joined in a 
race to see which should first strike the Confederates in flank or 
rear. At the same time General Sheridan, with his powerful cavalry, 
moving by the left, undertook to head them off to prevent their 
turning southward. He harassed them continually, meanwhile, 
with the fire of his artillery, constantly threatening attack, while 
they wearily hurried westward. 

The sixth corps, supporting the cavalry, resumed its march 
parallel to the enemy's moving column. General Griflin, command- 



178 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



ing the hfth corps, passing by Amelia Courthouse, kept to the left 
upon the iiank of the Confederates, while our own corps was follow- 
ing closely upon their rear guard. General Ord, having reached 
Ilurkesville, marched rapidly toward Farmville, aiming to destroy 
the bridge at that point, toward which General Lee was hurrying the 
head of his column. It was about nine o'clock on the morning of 
the 6th when our division came up with the rear guard of the enemy 
near Sulphur Spring. Ten minutes later the engagement opened. 

The 2oth Indiana rapidly deployed as skirmishers, supported 
by the 124th New York. They advanced up a hill and began 
drivino- the rebels who fell back along the Deatonsville Road. The 
whole division followed and soon came to a place where we could 
see the Confederate wagon trains but a short distance away. At 
about this time General Mott, who had gone to the front along the 
skirmish line, was wounded, the command of the division now 
devolving upon General De Trobriand, and that of our brigade upon 
Colonel Shepherd of our own Regiment. The movement, however, 
did not stop. The whole brigade, with the addition of two regiments 
from another brigade, all commanded by Colonel Shepherd, now 
passed on in line of battle behind the skirmish line, whose rapid 
adxance gave the enemy no time to halt or intrench. They tried 
to make a stop around a large farmhouse, but were hurled from it 
before they could cover themselves. A little farther on we were 
brought to a halt. Some Confederate cavalry had placed a battery 
in good position, so that their guns swept an open field over which 
we were passing to the right of the road. The first division of our 
corps, which had been hurrying up from Jettersville by a longer road, 
had not been able to reach us, but our skirmishers, every man 
apparently acting as a general, prolonged the line of battle. A sec- 
tion of the iith New York Battery came galloping on to the skir- 
misher's line and opened fire upon the enemy with such good results 
that soon the Confederate artillery and horsemen were seen hurry- 
ing away. 

General Humphreys appeared while this was going on, looked 
over the situation, explained where the roads went, 'and how to 
get at the rear of the enemy's trains and the artillery that was with 
their rear guard. Now the chase began anew. The enemy made 
another stand only to be brushed on by the line of skirmishers. A 



BUMMERS LEAD A CHARGE. I^C) 

little farther on was a hill crowned by a slope, a fence rail line, and 
fallen trees, which appear to be well filled with Confederates. They 
hold up the skirmishers. Our line of battle quickly forms, but under 
fire from artillery, which is out of sight and firing from just beyond 
the crest, behind a hedge, where a good line of Confederate infan- 
try awaits our coming. It takes only a few minutes to get these 
regiments ready to charge, — the First and Seventeenth Maine, 105th 
and iioth Pennsylvania, the 73d and 86th New York. Thev get 
the word and on they go, six lines of blue, six regimental colors 
waving in the line. They all seem to be hurrying to see who will 
get there first. No soldier lags behind. There is no hesitancy. 
The first thing is to strike the enemy. What a sight was this waving 
line of blue ! The Confederate line was swept away, our wounded 
were gathered up. No longer pause was made than was sufficient 
to gather in some Confederate prisoners. On we went, following 
the retreating Confederates to Deatonsville. Nearly all the regi- 
ments of our brigade had emptied their cartridge boxes, some of 
them had been on the skirmish line since morning. Here the first 
division of our corps came up and joined us, taking the ground on the 
right of the road. The second brigade took the place of the first 
in the front line, while we were filling our cartridge boxes almost 
without stopping, and on we went at a racing gait. Nobody desired 
to be left behind. Twenty-eight or thirty wagons from the rear of 
the enemy's trains and five pieces of artillery had already fallen into 
the hands of our brigades. At each capture the ardor and fury of the 
chase increased. The skirmish line and line of battle were almost 
mingled together. For the first time in the history of our war the 
stragglers, hunting for plunder, were actually in front of the skir- 
mish line. Sometimes a band of marauding stragglers would come 
upon a group of the enemy's rear guard near a plantation house, 
blaze away at them, demand their surrender, pick up what they could 
find, and race on for the next place. So stand after stand of the 
Confederates was swept along. Position after position was carried, 
hardly anybody knowing how. Late in the afternoon our second 
brigade, emerging from the woods, found themsehes in front of a 
sharp rise, behind the crest of which the enemy was in force and 
offering a determined resistance. Farther to the left the cause for 
which they were struggling was seen. Just over the crest the road 



j8o the first MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

over which we were passing took a long sweep to the left. Along 
that ro.id their wagon train was still defiling, stretched along the 
road almost parallel with our front. No line of Confederate troops 
could stand for a minute against the fury of our men when they saw 
those trains. Their line was swept away in an instant. The sec- 
ond brigade changed direction on the top of the hill, pivoting on its 
left flank, while the Jersey brigade went rushing in joining on its 
left. Our line had just passed a large farmhouse on the crest when 
we beheld a sight which brought the cheers. Before us was a nar- 
row valley and a small stream called Sailor's Creek. Along the 
road and into this valley more than two hundred wagons were hurry- 
ing pell-mell for safety. The first division came sweeping down, 
making a long detour in time to take part in the fray. The trophies 
for the second and third brigades, supported by the first, were 
valuable and an awful loss to the enemy, — 270 wagons, six pieces 
of artillery, eight flags, and 600 or 700 prisoners. 

While these stirring scenes were happening with us of the sec- 
ond corps, who were following and constantly fighting immediately 
upon the heels of the enemy, General Sheridan had been rushing on 
in advance of the sixth corps, watching for a point where he could 
deal the enemy a staggering blow upon his flank. He saw his 
chance; the enemy halted to show some force on the point attacked. 
A sharp fight ensued. While this was going on another division of 
cavalry passed in rear of the lines of the first and renewed the com- 
bat farther on, and then a third division passed by and attacked in 
like manner. While the enemy's infantry was being halted to fight 
in this manner, their trains were continuing on their way, leaving 
behind them the most of their protecting force. Thus the Confed- 
erate columns were broken into sections, and General Sheridan 
clearly foresaw that they would shortly be cut o'ff. 

Three divisions of cavalry, led by Custer, Crook, and Devins, 
struck the Confederate trains upon Sailor's Creek, about three miles 
from where we had struck the rear and captured a part. There they 
destroyed 400 wagons, captured sixteen pieces of artillery, and the 
report came to us that night that they had taken 6,000 prisoners. 
While this fighting by the cavalry was going on, Wright's sixth corps 
was hurrying to their help, and before sufficient infantry reinforce- 
ments could come to the help of General Ewell he found himself in 



GALLANTRY OF COLONELS READ AND WASHBURN. l8l 

General Sheridan's drag net, assaulted on every side, with no other 
resource than to surrender himself and five or six other general offi- 
cers with all the troops. These were not the only disasters which 
happened to General Lee's forces on that eventful day. 

We noted before that Longstreet's corps had reached High 
Bridge on the morning of this 6th day of April, rapidly advancing 
to Farmville, toward which General Ord, with his eighteenth and 
part of the twenty-fourth corps, was hurrying from Burkesville. 
General Ord, anxious to have at least a part of his forces reach 
Farmville in advance of the Confederates, sent out on the morning 
of the 6th Colonel Washburn with two infantry regiments, with 
instructions to destroy High Bridge below Farmville and then to 
return rapidly toward Burkesville. Soon after Washburn had started, 
General Ord became alarmed as to the safety of this small force and 
sent Colonel Read of his staff with about eighty cavalrymen to over- 
take him and bring him back. Very shortly after dispatching Read 
he learned that the head of Lee's army had got up to the road 
between him and where Washburn now was and attempted to send 
reinforcements, but the reinforcements were too late to reach him. 
Read, however, had passed through ahead of the enemy. He rode 
on to Farmville and was on the way back again when he found his 
way barred up and Washburn with his small force apparently con- 
fronting the advance of Lee's army. Colonel Read drew his little 
force up into line of battle, rode along their front making a speech, 
impressing all with his enthusiasm, and gave the order to charge. 
Small as his force was, they made several charges, unsuccessful of 
course, but inflicted upon the enemy a loss more than equal to the 
whole number under his own command. At the close of the conflict 
both Colonels Read and Washburn had fallen, while nearly every 
officer and most of the men had been either killed or wounded ; the 
remainder surrendered. The Confederates, believing this to be 
only the head of the advance of a large column of the Union army 
which had headed them off, stopped to intrench, so that the auda- 
cious attack by this little force checked for some time the advance 
of Lee's army and no doubt saved to us the trains following, (ien- 
eral Ord, hearing the firing from this small force, pushed rapidly 
forward and soon appeared. The rebels halted at Farmville could 
only turn off and attempt to reach Lynchburg. 



1 82 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

After the appalling disasters which happened to his army on 
the 6th, General Lee proceeded to Farmville, followed by General 
Longstreet with the troops of Field, Heth, and Wilcox, crossed the 
Appomattox there, and on the morning of the yth began moving out 
on the road which runs from Farmville through Appomattox Court- 
house to Lynchburg. In consequence of the movements of General 
Ord and the cavalry, all hope of reaching Danville had now to be 
abandoned. His only way of escape was through Appomattox 
Courthouse to Lynchburg, and thence to the mountains. While 
thus Longstreet with one part of Lee's fearfully crippled army moved 
through Farmville, Gordon with the other half crossed to the north 
bank of the Appomattox at High Bridge. The Confederates now 
had the advantage of having the river between them and their pur- 
suers. Up to this time the Union army had been straining every 
nerve to prevent Lee's escape southward. Generals Ord and 
Wright reached Farmville about as soon as the Confederates had 
succeeded in destroying the bridge at that place. General Hum- 
phreys with our own second corps had resumed the pursuit at half- 
past five on the morning of the 7th and reached High Bridge just 
at the moment when Gordon's corps with Mahone's division, having 
crossed by the two bridges, had blown up the redoubt which formed 
the bridgehead and were hurriedly endeavoring to burn both bridges. 

Barlow's division, which had the lead, were upon them with a 
rush and drove away the enemy who were engaged in the work of 
destruction. The Confederate commanders, surprised at this inter- 
ruption of their work, hurried back reinforcements to prevent our 
crossing, but General Barlow had taken a precaution to have troops 
enough across and in good position to hold the bridge against all 
attacks. General Humphreys was on the ground and immediately 
sent Colonel Livermore of his staff with a large detail armed with 
axes and buckets to put out the fire on the railroad bridge. With 
the utmost energy and gallantry, they saved this valuable bridge 
except three or four spans over the marsh. Mahone's division, at 
fust drawn up on the opposite bank of the river, soon moved aw^ay 
toward l-'armville, followed by General Barlow's division. General 
Humphreys immediately crossed over with the divisions of Generals 
Miles and I)e Trobriand and moved rapidly along the road running 
northwest, over which it was evident the main body of Lee's army 



GRANT DEMANDS SURRENDER OF LEE. 1 83 

had retreated. When General Barlow arrived near Farmville he 
found that place in possession of a strong force under Longstreet. 
The troops of Generals Ord and Wright were on the south bank of 
the river, unable to cross on account of the destruction of the 
bridges. General Barlow, though unsupported and alone, attacked 
the enemy furiously and succeeded in cutting off a large wagon train 
which he captured and destroyed. In this attack General Smyth, 
commanding one of Barlow's brigades, fell. He had done distin- 
guished service in nearly every battle of the second corps and 
was the last of the Union generals to give up his life for his 
country. 

About one o'clock w^e reached the old stage road running from 
Farmville to Lynchburg, and there encountered the enemy strongly 
intrenched and covering both the stage road and the plank road to 
Lynchburg. General Miles with his division was on the right of the 
road, our ow^n division on the left. It soon became evident that all 
the remaining infantry of Lee's army had united at this point and 
that two divisions of the second corps alone were confronting Lee's 
army at bay. General Humphreys' vigorous pursuit had found the 
vital point. We were, however, in a most unfortunate and hazard- 
ous position. We were too few for a flanking movement and not 
strong enough for a successful assault. The enemy, however, did 
not know this and did not venture to attack. General Miles, on our 
right, made an attack which was unsuccessful. Far to the left of 
our division a disturbance among the enemy indicated that Ord and 
Wright were crossing at Farmville. We heard tiring in that direc- 
tion, which continued coming toward us and confirmed our hope of 
speedy reinforcements. It proved, however, to be only the cavalry 
of Crook's division, which had forded the river. Generals Ord and 
Wright being still delayed. General Barlow, however, came back 
with his division before night, but not in time for anything to be 
done in the way of an assault. 

It was about half-past seven on the evening of this 7th day of 
April that General Williams, adjutant general on General Meade's 
staff, brought to General Humphreys on our lines the first letter of 
General Grant demanding the surrender of General Lee's army. 
The letter read as follows : 



jj^_j^ THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Headquarters Armies of the U. S., | 
5 p M., April 7, 1865. \ 

General R, E. Lee, 

Owimandwg C. S. A. : — 
The results of the last week must convince you of the hopeless- 
ness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Vir- 
ginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty 
to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of 
blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confed- 
erate States Army known as the Army of Northern Virginia. 

U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General. 

The distance from our front to the Confederate lines was very 
short at this point. The reply of General Lee came back into our 
lines within an hour, showing the presence of the Confederate com- 
mander directly in our front. It was immediately taken by way of 
High Bridge to General Grant at Farmville and read as follows: 

April 7, 1865. 
General : — 1 have received your note of this day. Though not 
entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further 
resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I recipro- 
cate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, 
before considering your proposition, ask the terms you will offer on 
condition of its surrender. 

R. E. Lee, General. 
Lieutenant General U. S. Grant, 

Co7nman(U?ig Armies of the U. S. 

At daybreak we were ready for an assault, but the enemy had 
silently stolen away in the night and at half-past iive we were break- 
fasted and after them. We now learned that the sixth and the 
eighteenth corps weie crossing at Farmville and joining in pursuit 
of Lee's army; that Sheridan with the cavalry and the fifth corps of 
the Army of the Potomac and part of the twenty-fourth corps was 
rapidly pushing along the south bank of the Appomattox, trying to 
reach Appomattox Courthouse in advance of General Lee. While 
our corps was in hot pursuit of the retreating Confederates, a second 
letter was sent through our lines to General Lee. No halt or delay, 
however, was made on account of this letter, which read as follows : 



grant's terms of surrender. 185 

April 8, 1865. 
General R. E. Lee^ 

Co77iina7iding C. S, A. : — 

Your note of last evening in reply to mine of same date, asking 

the condition on which I will accept the surrender of the Army of 

Northern Virginia is just received. In reply I would say that, peace 

being my great desire, there is but one condition I would insist upon, 

namely : that the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified 

for taking up arms again against the Government of the United 

States until properly exchanged. I will meet you, or will designate 

officers to meet any officers you may name for the same purpose, at 

any point agreeable to you, for the purpose of arranging definitely 

the terms upon which the surrender of the Army of Northern \'ir- 

ginia will be received. 

U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General. 

Lee's army was rapidly crumbling to pieces. Our foragers 
were out to the right and left, gathering in whatever we could find 
for the sustenance of man and beast. They were sent out in squads 
of ten to twelve men with one or two wagons. Wherever they found 
a well-filled corncrib it was speedily emptied and the corn loaded 
into our wagons. Hams, bacon, flour, and all other sorts of provis- 
ions were gathered in as well. There seemed to be quite a good 
supply of apple-jack in the cellar of nearly every plantation house. 
Our foragers who went out on foot usually came back riding some 
kind of an animal, either horses or mules. The writer remembers 
one party headed by a wagon master named Scates, who had ridden 
out on a very poor mule. He came back with his wagons loaded, 
riding a most magnificent young black stallion, with his whole party 
mounted, about half of them having a large demijohn snugly held 
up on the pommel of their saddles. Some of the hats they were 
wearing were beyond any description. 

Our army was now advancing in three columns, picking up all 
that was left behind by the Confederate army. We found its strag- 
glers in the woods, in the fields, and along the roadsides. Wherever 
our foragers overtook a band of Confederates they promptly sur- 
rendered, apparently happy to find an excuse. A dozen Confederate 
soldiers would sometimes surrender to an unarmed blue-coat. While 
this was going on with us, General Sheridan was relentlessly urging 



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his cavalry to the utmost of its endurance in an effort to get first to 
Appomattox Courthouse. Late in the afternoon the dashing Custer 
seized Appomattox Station, on the railroad four miles to the south- 
west of the courthouse, captured here the trains loaded with supplies 
which Lee's famishing troops so much needed and also a large 
number of prisoners. The reply to General Grant's second note to 
the commander of the Confederate armies did not come through 
our lines until late in the afternoon. Before dark the cavalry had 
pushed still farther forward and gained a position to the west of 
Appomattox Courthouse, heading off Lee's army from Lynchburg, 
as it had before been headed off from Danville. Whether the cav- 
alry could hold their position now depended upon whether Generals 
Ord and (iriffin with the infantry of the eighteenth and fifth corps 
could get up; but urged on by Sheridan's relentless demands, they 
trudged rapidly during the whole night. Nobody worried about 
Sheridan. It was his habit to get there. 

The second note of General Lee to General Grant was unsatis- 
factory and on the morning of the 9th the following note was sent 
through our lines to General Lee in reply. 

Headquarters Armies of the V. S., '} 
April 9, 1865. )" 
General R. E. Lee, 

Commanding C. S. A. : — 
Vour note of yesterday is received. As I have no authority to 
treat on the subject of peace, the meeting proposed for ten a. .m. 
to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I 
am equally anxious for peace with yourself, and the whole North 
entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be 
had are well understood. By the South laying dawn their arms they 
will hasten that desirable event, save thousands of human lives and 
hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Sincerely hop- 
ing that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another 
life. I subscribe myself, etc., 

U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General. 

It is difiicult to understand why (ieneral Lee did not do on the 
Sth what he was compelled to do twelve hours later. Certainly he 
had no hope, for on the evening of the Sth all his commanding gen- 



DYINC; STRUGGLE OF THE CONFEDERACY. 187 

erals had represented to him the absolute hopelessness of a further 
struggle, of the sacrificing of more lives. It may be that he hoped 
to get some concessions by putting up a diplomatic bluff, but Gen- 
eral Grant was not the man to be fooled. Very early on the morn- 
ing of the 9th we were up and after them. At the gateway of a 
large plantation house on the road stood an old, gray-haired, gray- 
whiskered man, the owner of the plantation. Those of us who came 
up first greeted him politely. The look upon his face as he saw our 
rapidly marching blue columns can never be forgotten. He imme- 
diately followed his first salutation to us as follows : "Ah! gentle- 
men, you are riding in high spirits this morning. You'll bite the 
dust before the sun goes down. General Lee stayed here last night. 
He is ready for you yonder. You'll not ride gaily on the morrow. 
Mark my words, you41 bite the dust before this day's sun goes down." 
He entered upon a long tirade against our abolition President and 
abolition hordes. He urged us to take a look into his cellar to see 
there the atrocious results of our damnable heresy. One look was 
sufficient. Many of the Confederate dead from the conflict of the 
night before had been brought in there with the hope of sending 
them away, for many of them had fallen not far from their homes. 
The Confederate wounded were in every house we passed. 

During our short conversation with the old man the troops 
were rapidly pushing on. As we started to ride to the head of the 
column we heard the breaking out of a vigorous cannonade and 
musketry fire nearly in our front. Up rose the cry: "There is 
Sheridan ! Bully for Sheridan*!" Every soldier increased his speed. 
We were shortly pressing upon the heels of the enemy's rear guard, 
now composed of Longstreet's corps, since Ewell's had been wiped 
out. This was the last convulsive struggle of Lee's Confederate 
army in the despairing throes of death. When General Lee started 
on his retreat on this 9th of April morning, supposing there was no 
Union soldier near, and that he would shortly reach his rations at 
Appomattox Station, he was destined to receive instead of rations a 
shocking surprise. The Confederates found that our cavalry had 
possession of the trains. They were desperate and hoped to cut 
through and recover them. Our cavalry immediately charged them 
and drove them back toward Appomattox Courthouse. General 
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pass over them; his troops were formed for that purpose. The 
artillery firing during the formation was the noise we heard. Sheri- 
dan, foreseeing this, had dismounted his cavalry, formed them in a 
strong skirmish line and ordered them to hold on and to retire 
slowly, fighting their way, while the long lines of infantry of the 
Army of the James and the fifth corps were taking position behind 
him. When Ord was in position, all the cavalry, running to their 
horses, galloped into position to attack the enemy in the flank when 
Ord should attack them in the front. The fifth corps was formed 
in line between Sheridan's cavalry and our second corps. Between 
these three columns, with the James river barring escape on the 
other side, Lee was in a box, hemmed in by lines of steel, and his 
army could do nothing but surrender or be drowned in its own blood. 

White flags immediately appeared along the Confederate lines, 
before the van of the troops held by Custer, and also all along our 
front. General Sheridan rode to Appomattox Courthouse, where he 
was met by General Gordon with the information that Generals 
(irant and Lee were even then negotiating for the surrender of the 
Army of Northern Virginia, and requested a cessation of hostilities 
Confederate officers in our front sent to our commanders the same 
information. Orders to halt in our march were shortly received. 
An aid from General Meade's headquarters ordered the writer to 
clear the road of trains and artillery, which was instantly done, when 
a four-horse headquarters wagon, containing General Meade, who 
was quite ill, was driven by. At almost the same time General 
Grant, followed by his staff, went galloping by in the w^ooded field 
on the side of the road. Our commanders received orders to sus- 
pend hostilities for an hour. The conflict of the morning had 
brought from General Lee the following reply to General Grant's 
note of the evening before: 

April 9, 1865. 

General : — I received your note of this morning on the picket 
hne, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what 
terms were embraced in your proposal of yesterday wdth reference 
to the surrender of this army. I now request an interview in accord- 
ance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that 
P^"Tose. ]^_ E, Lee, General. 

/.ieu tenant General C. S. Gratit, 

Commanding C\ S. Armies. 



SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE. 189 

The interview was granted and the two generals met in a house 
near Appomattox Courthouse. 

A little later notice was received that hostilities would be sus- 
pended until two o'clock. Promptly at two o'clock we moved on 
again, but shortly halted on high ground with a large open space 
between us and a belt of woods. The point where we halted was 
known as Clover Hill. The enemy's pickets, quiet at their posts, 
were close by; our boys were impatient, officers were fretting. "Is 
Lee going to surrender? It is only a trick. Let us go in and finish 
them. Let us finish them while we can see them,'' and such like 
exclamations of impatience were constantly heard. 

At length we saw General Meade, followed by his staff, riding 
toward our lines, evidently restored to health by the events of 
the day. As he came to the first of our troops, he raised his 
hat and said something, which, by his gesture, everybody under- 
stood to be that Lee had surrendered, although we could not hear. 
He was immediately surrounded by the troops. Cheer after cheer 
rent the air. Hats and caps were thrown into the sky. Generals 
and their staffs joined in the wild acclaim. Some soldiers, in their 
frenzy of joy, would fire their guns in the air, not stopping to think 
that their falling bullets might return upon them. The bands were 
blaring with all kinds of patriotic airs. All this, however, was speed- 
ily suppressed for a time by orders to make no demonstration. It 
was, however, impossible to stop the rejoicings among the soldiers. 
All the hopes of four years were at last realized, all the fears dissi- 
pated, all perils disappeared. Our privations, suff'erings, and misery 
were ended. Over all and above all our country was saved, whole 
and undivided. We knew that no Confederate Government could 
exist without Lee's army. That array was now prostrate and 
destroyed forever, so orders or no orders the wild rejoicings went on 
until far into the night. The men preferred to hurrah rather than 
sleep. Tired and exhausted, they would even holler in their sleep. 
Some soldier in his joyous dreams would yell, " Hurrah ! " and 
immediately a dozen or two of men, more asleep than awake, would 
stand up and yell, " Hurrah ! '' Some stupid fellow, slower than the 
rest, would raise himself up on all fours and yell out, " Where is 
old Bobby Lee?" 

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ordered to proceed immediately with most of the artillery to Burkes- 
ville I unction, taking with them only forage enough to supply the 
animals until we could reach that point. The engineers had been 
rapidly repairing the railroad to Burkesville, and there we were to 
meet full supplies for man and beast. 

The terms of surrender granted to General Lee by General 
(irant were most generous. They were as follows: 

Appomattox Courthouse, Va., )^ 
April 9, 1865. \ 
General: — In accordance with the substance of my letter to 
you of the 8th instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the 
Armv of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls 
of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be 
given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by 
such other officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to 
give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Gov- 
ernment of the United States until properly exchanged ; and each 
company or regimental commander to sign a like parole for the men 
of their commands. The arms, artillery, and public property to be 
parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by 
me to receive them. This will not embrace the side arms of the 
officers, their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer 
and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed 
by the United States authority so long as they observe their paroles 
and the laws in force where they reside. 

U. S. Grant, Lieutenant General. 
General R. E. I.ee. 

Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, ) 

April 9, 1865. \ 
General: — I received your letter of this date, containing the 
terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed 
by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in 
your letter of the 8th instant they are accepted. I will proceed to 
designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. 

R. E. Lee, General. 
/.ieufenant Genera/ U. S. Grant. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

MARCHING HOMEWARD CELEBRATION IN CAMP SHERMAN AND 

JOHNSTON THE NATION'S AWFUL CALAMITV: ASSASSINATION 

OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN FLIGHT OF JEFF DAVIS THE MARCH 

THROUGH RICHMOND TO WASHIN(;T0N — CAMI>INC; AT BAILEY's 

CROSSROADS THE GRAND REVIEW RETURN HOME OF THE 

ORI(;iNAL REGIMENT WORK ABOUT WASHIN<;T()N GOINC; HOME. 

It will be noticed that the shattering of Lee's lines around 
Petersburg and Richmond occurred on Sunday, the 2d of April; 
that the entire week following had been consumed in the most 
heroic and tireless race that ever occurred between two armies. 
The Confederates had the advantage, from the fact that they were 
on their own territory, knew every road, crossroad, stream, and 
bridge, while we did not. We had a great advantage in the fact 
that every officer and man in the whole army was possessed with a 
fearless determination to finish the rebellion here and now. To 
attempt to mention the valor of any one or any few, where all were 
valiant in the extreme, would be a hopeless task. No man in our 
army seemed to count his life worth anything. No soldier got too 
tired or too hungry to go, day or night, awake or asleep. This 
writer has frequently heard men say that they actually slept on their 
horses, others that they marched in their sleep. From the time the 
campaign started, and particularly after the lines were broken around 
Petersburg and Richmond, the most intelligent of General Lee's 
officers and soldiers knew their fight was a hopeless one. They 
had lost faith in their politicians and in the Confederate Govern- 
ment. Their only hope was in General Lee and the commanders 
under him who had led them out of so many difficulties in so many 
battles. We must concede that the Confederate army was game to 
the finish. They put up a plucky resistance until the very last. How- 
ever much we might despise their cause, no matter how much dis- 
dain we felt for the miserable ambitions of the political leaders, who 
had dragged the South into this horrible destruction, we could but 
admire the bravery of the enemy who so long had confronted us, 



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and whose forces were now crumbling to fragments at our hands. 
Never in history was a people so shamefully deceived or led to more 
costly sacrifices than were the people of the South by a few political 
leaders seeking their own aggrandizement. 

THE BEGINNING OF OUR HOMEWARD MARCH. 

After resting two nights and a day, rejoicing that the end had 
come, congratulating each other upon the glory of our victories, 
and fraternizing with the Confederate officers and men, we started 
on Tuesday to march leisurely back to Burkesville Junction, by way 
of Farmville. The troops bivouacked for the first night in the 
neighborhood of New Store and on the second night in the vicinity 
of Farmville, where some rations of hard bread, sugar, coffee, and 
meat were issued, and we continued our march, arriving at Burkes- 
ville on the 13th. Here abundant rations, supplies of clothing and 
shoes were issued to all requiring them. Our first night in camp we 
had a great illumination in honor of our victory and spent the evening 
with noisy demonstrations of rejoicing and the prospect of a speedy 
return home. During the march from Appomattox Courthouse 
many Confederate officers and men, who had been paroled, marched 
with us on their way to their homes. We believed that General 
Lee having surrendered, the head of the Confederacy having been 
cut off, that General Johnston would immediately surrender to 
General Sherman. 

That energetic commander had wallowed through the mud from 
Savannah, spreading terror and dismay throughout the birthplace 
of the C'onfederacy, and was now with his strong and rapidly 
increasing army confronting the only army worth mentioning left to 
the Confederacy, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, one of the bravest 
and most accomplished officers who had ever served the South. 
Of one thing we were certain, if he did not surrender to Sherman 
he would surrender to us in short order, for we could be upon him 
in three or four days. But after a night of joy, alas for the morn- 
ing! A sad cloud of bereavement was hovering over our camp. 
The telegraph brought to us the appalling news that President 
Lincoln and members of his cabinet had been brutally assassinated 
in Washington during the night, while we were rejoicing and sleep- 
ing, and that Abraham Lincoln was dead. Groups of men gathered 



ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. I93 

about their officers to learn the truth. A grim and funereal silence 
seized the camp, officers and men seem to be dazed. With heavy 
hearts they endured their grief and pondered the future. All day 
they stood or sat in groups, looking into each other's faces, scarcely 
speaking. What next? What other disaster can befall our beloved 
country? "Sorrow and weeping may endure for a night, but joy 
comes in the morning.'' 

With the return of the morning's light, a new hope had seized 
the hearts of the army. It is an awful loss, but our country is 
greater that any man or even a multitude of men. We have General 
Grant, and the army is left. W^ith such a power remaining no 
treason shall destroy our land. A new courage, a more resolute 
determination, had seized everybody. It was an awful shock to the 
whole country. It was a distressing grief to us, it was an appalling 
disaster to the South. President Lincoln was their best friend and 
many of them had come to believe it. They needed him now to 
work out for them the problem of restoration. They needed the 
inspiration of his great mind and generous heart to stretch forth 
the hand and lift them up from the awful calamity that had over- 
taken them. But Lincoln was dead; the fate of a martyr had 
snatched him away from the lofty apex of his fame and crowned him 
with eternal glory. 

Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, Vice President of the United 
States, now became President by virtue of the constitution. Breath- 
ing out threatenings and slaughter toward treason in high places, 
he assumed and began the prerogatives of the presidential office. 
The reading of his inaugural address filled us with portentous fore- 
bodings for our beloved country and the return of peace, but we 
must wait. While waiting we had opportunity to look over all fields 
of operations, to consider the work of the past, and to explore in 
anticipation the bright hopes which seemed to lie before our undi- 
vided country. 

With the surrender of Lee's army the war was practically 
ended. When we moved out March 29th on our last campaign, 
General Sherman was with his army at (ioldsboro. North Carolina, 
resting and making preparations for the further prosecution of the 
campaign. He was intending to destroy or drive away Johnston's 
army and seize Burkesville to prevent Lee getting south. The 



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happy event at Appomattox had brought us there before him. 
There was no longer a necessity for him at Burkesville. As we 
predicted, (xeneral Johnston surrendered to General Sherman on the 
1 6th of April. Some unsatisfactory matter having entered into the 
capitulation of General Johnston, there was some further delay and 
we remained at Burkesville. 

lelYerson Davis, as we have seen, tied from Richmond before 
our troops entered on the 3d of April. He was at Danville the 5th, 
and there, after playing government for a day or so, issued the 
following proclamation, which, considering the fact that he was a 
fugitive, reads like a declamation. 

"At Danville, on the 5th of April, Davis issued a proclamation. 
After mentioning the causes which compelled the abandonment of 
Richmond, he said : ' We have now entered upon a new phase 
of the struggle. Relieved from the necessity of guarding particular 
points, our army will be free to move from point to point, to strike 
the enemy in detail, far from his base. Let us but will it and we 
are free. Animated by that confidence in spirit and fortitude which 
never yet failed me, I announce to you, fellow-countrymen, that it is 
my purpose to maintain your cause with my whole heart and soul; 
that I will never consent to abandon to the enemy one foot of the 
soil of any one of the States of the Confederacy.' He declared his 
purpose to defend Virginia, and that no peace should 'ever be 
made with the infamous invaders of her territory.' He added : ' If, 
by the stress of numbers, we should ever be compelled to a tempor- 
ary withdrawal from her limits, or those of any other border State, 
again and again will we return, until the baffled and exhausted 
enemy shall abandon, in despair, his endless and impossible task of 
making slaves of a people resolved to be free.' '" 

It is w^orthy of note, that, while the chief 'of the Confederacy 
was thus indulging in boastful language to deceive the people, he 
was ready to desert the cause, when necessity should compel him 
to do so, for the preservation of himself. One of Davis's staff 
officers, who went with the "(Government " in its fiight, speaking of 
Davis's proclamation, said it was "to reassure the public and to 
persuade them that it was for the special accommodation of Lee's 
new tactics — field tactics as opposed to intrenched positions — that 
Kichmond was abandoned. The proclamation was very spirited 
and breathed defiance to the last." 



END OF THE CIVIL WAR. 



195 



Meantime Governor Vance and other prominent men of North 
Carolina had concluded the Confederacy was at an end, and sent 
commissioners to General Sherman for the purpose of turning the 
State over to his protection. Davis, learning of Lee's surrender, 
took flight to make good his escape and the saving of the good sup- 
ply of gold he had taken with him from Richmond. VA^ade Hampton 
refused to be bound by Johnston's surrender and dashed off with 
his cavalry to follow the fortunes of Davis. The flight of the con- 
spirators was exciting. The desertion of Davis by his Cabinet and 
his final capture, clad in petticoats and hoopskirt, by Wilson's cav- 
alry make a grotesque picture. The remaining Confederate forces 
were soon surrendered. The last battle of the Civil War was fought 
at Palmetto Ranch, Texas. At about sunset on the 13th of May, 
1865, the 62d U. S. Colored Infantry fired the last volley at the 
retreating Confederacy. A colored sergeant of that regiment, 
named Crockett, received into his flesh the last rebel bullet fired at 
Freedom. So ended the Civil War in the field. 

MORALE OF THE TWO ARMIES. CONDI IION OF THE NOR IH AND SOL' IH. 

We have noticed that from the beginning of this campaign 
every Northern soldier had taken it upon himself to finish the war. 
There was no more straggling. A rear guard was no longer neces- 
sary. F.very man was striving to get to the front and close with the 
enemy. They felt that the day was near when they could return 
home leaving no armed rebellion behind, their country saved. 

It was far different with the Confederates. They felt that they 
had no hope of success ; that theirs was a planter's, a politician's, 
war, but a poor man's fight. They were consequently depressed 
and demoralized, their despondency increasing each day. 

After the battle of Sailor's Creek they threw away their arms 
more and more, and dropping out of the ranks betook themselves 
to the woods, hoping to escape capture and get to their homes. 
Many were dropping out and surrendering as we advanced. Lee's 
army had suftered so severely from losses that he ofticially sur- 
rendered only 28,356 officers and men at Appomattox. We had 
captured since March 29th 19,132. This aggregates 47'488 surren- 
dered, not mentioning Lee's great losses in killed and wounded and 
desertion during these crumbling days. There was always a dispo- 



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sition in Southern reports to magnify the numbers of men engaged 
in battles on the part of the North and to minimize the numbers on 
the part of the South. These same reports averred that the South 
had but twelve millions population against our twenty. Many thou- 
sands of disloyal citizens in the North were aiding and abetting the 
enemies of our country, while there was no such division tolerated 
bv the South. If at the close of the war the Southern armies were 
exhausted and discouraged, the people at home were in still greater 
distress. 

The Tnion armies were never so powerful and efficient as 
when Lee surrendered. They were commanded by young and able 
officers, who had earned their spurs on the field in many battles. 
There were hundreds of such officers under thirty years of age, who 
were now staff officers or in command of a brigade or regiment, 
who could have done their country honor commanding an army 
corps. The strength of the army was not more encouraging than 
the condition of the people in the Northern States. We had w^aged 
on land and sea the most expensive war in history for more than 
four years. The country had increased in population and wealth 
steadily, notwithstanding our enormous losses. The spirit of oppo- 
sition to the National Government by the Copperheads in the North 
subsided with the suppression of armed opposition. By the time 
the last of us were mustered out they had all been converted to 
good L'nion men, and to hear them tell it we might think they had 
furnished all the means and done all the fighting to save the coun- 
try. A like condition existed in the South. Many rank old seces- 
sionists who had lost anything by the war suddenly began to pose 
as intensely loyal citizens. Their posing was soon followed by a 
claim for what they had lost. It has sometimes since been a won- 
der where all the disloyal people went. 

We remained at Burkesville watching developments until May 
2d, when we started on our march to Richmond. We were fully 
recuperated from the exhaustion of our short but furious campaign. 
Our jaded horses were as much refreshed and improved as we were. 
The roads and the weather were all we could ask. All Nature 
seemed to be smiling upon us. The field and forest were decorated 
in all the beauty of spring, beauteous in bright green and fresh flow- 
ers. ( )ur sensations can be better imagined than described, as we 



IMARCHINd HOMEWARD. I97 

Started out on this peaceful May morning with our faces turned 
homeward. No carnage was before us and no foe behind. Our 
march was leisurely, with frequent rests and time for rations. 
Officers and men were jubilant, even hilarious. \\t bivouacked the 
first night at Jettersville, on the very ground we had occupied the 
night of April 5th just before going into the battle at Sailor's Creek, 
which sent Lee's army reeling to its death. The following day we 
marched eighteen miles and encamped on the north bank of the 
Appomattox. On the third day of our homeward march we arrived 
at Falling Creek, where we bivouacked and spent the night in a 
drizzling rain. The next day was one of those disagreeable storms 
so common in A^irginia. We now encamped for two nights and a 
day at Manchester, directly across the river from Richmond. All 
the boys had opportunity to visit the city toward which we had so 
many times started, always to find the entrance barred. 

We visited Castle Thunder and Libby Prison and Belle Isle, 
no longer prison-pens, thank God, for Cnion soldiers. Rebel sol- 
diers now peered at us through the same grates and bars that but 
a few weeks before had held our Union men and officers in the 
miseries of chivalric cruelty. The old keeper of Libby Prison, the 
notorious Turner, was himself an occupant of one of the vilest cells. 
Except the portion of the city which the Confederates had them- 
selves fired when leaving, the appearance of Richmond was much 
better than we could have expected. In the wealthy and better 
portions of the city the houses appeared to be closed, the haughty 
owners having apparently tied. Here and there some aged seces- 
sionist would silently cast scornful looks at us, signifying that we 
were not welcome visitors. There was no sign that any act of pill- 
age had been committed by our victorious army. Everything was 
quiet in the streets and in the public buildings. There was no sign 
of disorder or improper conduct among any of the thousands of 
soldiers who were looking over the city. On the following day we 
resumed our march. The bridge across the James River having 
been destroyed, the troops crossed the upper pontoon bridge, while 
the trains and artillery crossed the lower pontoon bridge. The 
twenty-fifth army corps was paraded in honor of our passage, while 
Generals Halleck and Meade reviewed the passing troops. The 
troops encamped for the night some five or six miles beyond the 



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city at a place known as Yellow Tavern. Starting at six o'clock 
on the following morning with our division leading the march over 
fine roads, we crossed the Chickahominy at Winston's Bridge, the 
Pamunkey at New Page Bridge, on pontoons. We halted for a 
brief rest at the fine residence of the rebel General Rosser and 
encamped for the night a mile or two beyond the Pamunkey on the 
borders of the high land, where we found good water. The follow- 
ing day we continued our march northward by way of Concord 
Church, encamped for the night in the vicinity of Mount Carmel 
Church, where we had our division hospital during the battle of 
North Anna. We continued our march on the 9th, crossed the 
River Mat and the Ta, and encamped for the night on the bank of 
the River l^o, the old rebel camping ground of just one year ago. 
The four rivers, the Mat, the 'J'a, the Po, and the Ny, unite and 
form, as the name indicates, the Matapony River. 

On the loth we marched across our old camping ground by way 
of Massaponax Church, crossing Massaponax Creek, and passing 
through Fredericksburg and Falmouth, bivouacked for the night 
about four miles from the Rappahannock River. A detachment 
was sent from our division with a wagon to secure the great tree cut 
down by bullets in the famous angle on the Spottsylvania battle 
ground. It was taken to Washington and has ever since been shown 
in the National Museum as a silent witness of the fury of this battle^ 
We had passed through Fredericksburg before, but now we observed 
more than ever the grim evidence of what a curse secession had 
been to the Southern people. Here the buildings were riddled 
with shot and shell. An air of desolation, discouragement, and 
hopelessness hung over this old river town; nor was Falmouth 
in any better condition. Indeed, everywhere over the whole course 
of our march we were reminded of the cruelty and devastation 
wrought by war. 

The march of the nth was extremely warm and uncomfortable 
and brought us to our bivouac on what was known as the Franklin 
I'arm. Our march of the 12th was begun early and took us across 
the Occoquan, passing Burke's Station on the Orange and Alexan- 
dria Railroad, across the Accotink Creek to a place near Armadale, 
about seven miles from Alexandria, where we bivouacked for the 
night and remained during the next day. Here we learned of the 



(iRAND REVIEW OF THE ARMY. 1 99 

capture of Jeff Davis, and again the troops were jubilant over 
the glad tidings. On the i6th we moved again, this time reaching 
the last encampment of the Army of the Potomac, near Bailey's 
Cross Roads, distant about four miles from Washington and in 
plain sight of the capital. Here we remained without incident 
worthy of mention except that executive officers were under orders 
to put the troops and all equipments in fine condition. 

On the 23d of May occurred the grand review of the Army of 
the Potomac in the city of Washington. During that beautiful and 
memorable day the great army, upon which the hopes of the nation 
had so long been centered, now passed in review before the Presi- 
dent of the United States, General Grant, General Meade, members 
of the Cabinet, Senators and Representatives from all the States, 
the diplomatic corps composed of ambassadors from all foreign 
countries, and a vast concourse of people from all over the United 
States. This vast army, composed of the second, fifth, sixth, ninth, 
tenth, and nineteenth army corps, and also the cavalry corps, with 
all the artillery and paraphernalia for carrying on destructive war, 
formed a spectacular drama, the moving power of a great nation, 
the like of which none of us may ever again expect to see. Veterans 
every one of them, who had faced the foe and deadly missiles amidst 
the noise, smoke, and carnage of many battles, were now passing 
with their implements, their tattered banners, and their scars before 
a great multitude, to whom their services had brought liberty and 
safety. 

On the following day General Sherman's army, which had also 
arrived after its long march from Atlanta to Savannah, and from 
Savannah to Washington, passed in review as the Army of the 
Potomac had done the day before, Some of the trophies of their 
campaigns these bold marchers of the West bro'ight with them. 
They were a great amusement and caused much merriment to the 
lookers-on. The bold, swinging gait of the tall Westerners was 
characteristic of their achievements and their renown. 

Our division having passed early on the first day, it was the 
privilege of the writer to witness nearly the whole of this grand 
review. He was particularly impressed by the apparent look of 
astonishment upon the faces of the foreign ambassadors, who were 
witnessing a display of the tremendous power of the American 



2 00 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Government. Such a day must have been a disappointment to 
their royal masters, who had, during our struggle, made small con- 
cealment of their purpose to carve the young republic and divide 
her domain among themselves, when our struggles should have so 
weakened us that we could no longer resist. France had already 
sent an army of occupation to Mexico on pretext of protecting her 
own citizens, had displaced her republic with a monarchical govern- 
ment, and placed a royal Prince of Austria, Maximillian, upon the 
throne. The French army had been hovering threateningly near 
our borders on the Rio Grande. Shortly after our review General 
(irant dispatched General Sheridan with a strong army corps to the 
Rio Grande to observe the doings of the French commander, who 
immediately became very much disturbed by such a force as Sheri- 
dan's, and requested its withdrawal. His Government, to whom he 
reported the fact, thought it wiser to withdraw their troops from 
Mexico, a judgment which all good American citizens highly com- 
mended. 

It seems surprising how rapidly the insolence of foreign 
governments subsided and were displaced by expressions of high 
esteem for the United States. We now had the most powerful 
navy of any nation, while our army was the strongest, best equipped, 
and by far the most effective in the world. 

General Orders, No. 26, from the headquarters of the Army of 
the Potomac, directed the immediate muster-out of all troops in the 
army whose term of service expired prior to October i, 1865. In 
obedience to this order all the original members, whose three years' 
service would expire in August, were mustered out and all officers 
who had not received recent promotions. 

The old Regiment returned home to Maine under the command 
of Lieutenant Golonel Smith, and was mustered out at P)angor, 
June 6, 1865. All the recruits and officers recently promoted from 
the 3d, 4th, 17th, and 19th Maine were consolidated with us and 
became a part of the First Maine Heavy Artillery, and we were 
ordered to garrison the forts on the cast side of the Anacostia or 
Eastern Prnncii of the Potomac River. Our companies were distrib- 
uted over a large area at the following forts and batteries. I'he 
headquarters of the brigade was at Fort Baker, Colonel Shepherd 
in command. The headquarters of the First Maine was also at 



MUSTERED OUT AT LAST. 20I 

Fort Baker, Lieutenant Colonel Smith commanding the Regiment, 
Portions of the Regiment were distributed to Fort Davis, Fort 
Dupont, Fort Meigs, Fort ^^'agner, Fort Ricketts, Fort Stanton, 
Fort Snyder, Fort Carroll, Fort Greble, and Fort Foote ; the latter 
being a! strong, enclosed fortification on the Potomac River. 

Our duties here were the routine duties of the camp and the 
caring for and turning over to the Government of the immense 
mass of military property and stores which were no longer required. 
There was little of incident to record during our stay in this service. 
Most of the ofiicers and men were anxious to get home to their 
families and friends. They were no longer inspired by a feeling of 
patriotism sufficient to make sacrifices without complaint. There 
were some desertions and some resignations by worthy officers. 

On the nth day of September, 1865, in conformity to orders 
issued from the war department, we were mustered out, turned over 
the property at the different forts to our successors, and a few days 
later took our departure by the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsyl- 
vania Railroads for New York. Our quartermaster, Horace H. 
Shaw, having preceded us, he received orders in New York for the 
transportation of the Regiment, met us at Jersey City and made 
preparations for our embarkation on two large steamers for trans- 
portation to Portland with men, baggage, and horses, with instruc- 
tions to proceed from Portland to Augusta to be discharged. Upon 
arrival in Portland Harbor we were again met by the same energetic 
officer, who had secured a change of order from the commander of 
the eastern department for these steamers to proceed directly to 
Bangor, the home of the Regiment, for its final discharge. 

We arrived at Bangor on Sunday, the 17th of September, and 
bivouacked at the old arsenal ground. We were discharged and 
paid on the 20th of September, 1865. Thus ended the organization 
of the Regiment, which during the three years and more of its ser- 
vice had lost more men killed and wounded in battle than any other 
regiment in the service of the United States in the Civil War or in 
anv other war. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

RESULTS OF THK WAR (iROWTH OF THE NATION WHAT THE 

SURVIVORS HAVE LIVED TO SEE. 

The intense excitement in i860 will long be remenbered by 
manv of us who were then too young to vote. We were proud of the 
progress and achievements of our country. The original thirteen 
States, with a population of three million, had crossed the line into 
this century with a population of five million. The country had 
recovered from the effects of the Revolution, and manufactures and 
the aris were fairly under way. Freed from British rule they at 
once began to produce their own supplies and entered this century 
with great enterprise. 

The new (Government had been organized in 1789. Our strife 
was born with our nation. The compromises upon the slavery 
question, inserted in the constitution, formed an essential part of 
that important compact. The first twelve years of our national 
history were tranquil years. 

March 4, 1789, the territory of the United States contained 
827,844 square miles in the thirteen original States and the territory 
they claimed. In 1803-05 Louisiana and Oregon were acquired, 
consisting of i, 17 1,931 square miles. The Florida purchase added 
59,268 square miles. In 1845 37^^^^3 square miles were gained 
from Texas, 545,753 square miles ceded from Mexico in 1848, and 
the Gadsden purchase in 1853 added 44,064 square miles. In 1867 
Alaska was purchased from Russia with 532,409 square miles, 
making in all an area of 3,558,009 square miles, or an increase of 
more than fourfold in less than eighty years. In 1800 Ohio was the 
western frontier, Indians scalped prisoners on the banks of the 
Miami in the beginning of the century. The United States occupied 
a narrow Ijorder of land along the Atlantic. In 1900 it extends 
from the Lakes to the Gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 
one whole and undivided country. Thank God! 

We must attribute the cause of our war to slavery. This vexed 
question, compromised in the constitution, had been constantly a 



OUR STATUS WHEN WAR RE(iAN. 203 

source of political contention. The South had been dominant in 
national politics from the organization of the Government to the 
close of the long political struggle which ended in the election of 
Abraham Lincoln in i860. A more serious conflict was about to 
begin. For the first time in the history of the (iovernment the 
South was defeated in a presidential election, where an issue affect- 
ing the slavery question was involved. There had been grave 
conflicts before, sometimes followed by a compromise, oftentr by a 
victory for the South. But the election of i860 was the culmination 
of a contest which was inherent in the structure of the Government; 
which was foreshadowed by the Louisiana question of 1812; which 
became active and angry over the admission of Missouri and Maine; 
which was revived by the annexation of Texas, and still further 
inflamed by the Mexican War; which was partially allayed by the 
Compromises of 1850; which was precipitated for final settlement 
by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, by the consequent 
struggle for mastery in Kansas, and by the aggressive intervention 
of the Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott. These are the 
events which led directly to the political revolution of i860. 

The statistics show, in i860, six million horses, two million 
working oxen, eight million cows, fifteen million other cattle, twenty- 
two million sheep, and thirty-three million hogs. The cotton crop 
a million tons. The grain crop was twelve hundred million bushels. 
The tobacco crop was five hundred million pounds. There were 
five thousand miles of canals and thirty thousand miles of railroads. 
The textile manufactures of the country had reached the annual 
value of two hundred million dollars. There were one hundred and 
thirteen thousand schools and colleges, employing one hundred 
and fifty thousand teachers, and were attended by five and one-half 
million pupils. There were fifty-four thousand churches, with 
accommodation for nineteen million hearers. There were four thou- 
sand newspapers circulating annually one thousand million copies. 

The firing upon F'ort Sumter lighted the fiames of Civil War 
between the North and South. Reckoning the men engaged, the 
losses of men and property, the enormous cost, the territory over 
which the conflict raged, and the far-reaching consequences, it was 
the greatest and most destructive war recorded in the annals of time. 
It not only set free four million slaves, but it established the unity 



204 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

of the nation by annihilating the doctrines of State rights and the 
rights of secession, and by the final arbitrament of the sword decided 
all the questions that had caused sectional strife. 

In the manner of the closing the war and its treatment of the 
conquered, the nation gave an example of magnanimity that chal- 
lenges the admiration of men in all coming time. The South made 
no terms, for she was powerless to do so. She lay wholly at the 
mercy of her conqueror. The great purposes for which she had 
fought so bravely had been rendered forever unattainable. Slavery 
was extinguished. Its banishment was written in the blood of 
thousands of men, so that the whole world could read that America 
was a nation and not merely a temporary association, whose exist- 
ence was terminable at the pleasure or wrath of any of its members. 
The South accepted in good faith the decision of the sword. The 
North, singularly merciful in her use of victory, inflicted no penalty 
on those whom she had defeated. It was her duty of love now to 
bind up the nation's wounds, and to establish an everlasting peace 
among ourselves and with all the nations of the earth. 

THE TRANSFORMATION. 

The close of the war and the return of peace exhibited as 
remarkable a transformation as was ever before seen on earth. 
When the sun rose on the 8th of April, 1865, a million and a half 
of men on the American Continent were seeking each other with 
arms in their hands, intent upon mutual destruction. Hostile camp 
fires burned in fifteen States of the Union. Great palls of smoke 
were massed around Petersburg and Richmond, Selma and Mobile. 
Kvery highway almost of the South was occupied with contending 
forces. The historic 9th of April came and passed. When the sun 
rose on the following morning the whole scene was transformed and 
bore a new aspect as in the change of scenes in a theatre. War had 
ceased. Two great armies were fraternizing, the victorious feeding 
the vanquished. The end of the great rebellion in America had 
come in a day. Our adversaries were told to take new hope, to go 
back to their dwelling places, rebuild their homes, to dwell in the 
land with us in peace and Christian unity. By every highway and 
road the Confederate army melted away never to be reassembled. 
And the great Northern army, their victorious countrymen, without 
a note of exultation in the presence of the vanquished, lifting on 



WORK OF SURVIVORS. 205 

high their victorious ensigns, turned from the front and melted, as 
an army, from the face of the earth. They surrendered their arms 
to the keeping of their Government, their flags to memorial halls. 
Their fame only have they bequeathed to their country, to thtir 
offspring, and to the world. What have they been doing since? 

Their habits of overcoming obstacles and surmounting difficul- 
ties have seized the land. They have been building railroads, open- 
ing mines, subduing wild regions, drawing streams of living water 
down irrigating channels, thus making the wilderness to blossom as 
the rose. They have girdled the everlasting hills with tracks of 
iron and steel. They have been extending the blessings of freedom 
and of free government to wide regions, where the buffalo ranged 
and the wolf sentineled the passing night, in lands inhabited bv no 
human being save wild and savage tribes. 

Their cities rise where the lone tepees stood. They have 
become prosperous farmers, great merchants, leaders in finance, 
captains of industry. They have brought to the sacred desk the 
service of consecrated powers and eloquent tongues. They have 
administered to the weak and feeble of the earth, and to the sick 
with the gentle skill of healing knowledge. In high tribunals of 
justice they have inscribed with pen on the tablets of the law what 
they strove for with the sword. They have been making States. 
They have become representatives, senators, governors, presidents. 
In foreign lands they have illustrated the dignity and glory of the 
republic. They have entered every field of citizenship, of labor, 
thought, purpose, invention, enterprise, daring, and genius, and 
have ranked with the foremost of this illustrious century. They 
have shaped the constitutions and laws for the union of the States 
and the high destinies of the great republic. Now that the invin- 
cible assaults of time are upon them, now that the planets and the 
stars in their courses fight resistlessly against them in their age, 
the survivors are lifted upon the very mountain peak of American 
pride and affection. There they stand and yonder they lie, the 
survivors and those gone on before, their history secure. And what 
a land is ours! Our population is 75,000,000. 

In 1898 the Ignited States produced thirty-five per cent, of the 
world's manufactures. We raised forty per cent, of the agricultural 
products of the world. Our mineral wealth surpasses that of any 



3o6 IHE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Other nation, and our total wealth is twenty-five per cent, greater 
than that of Great Britain, twice that of France, and equal to that 
of Russia, Austria, Italy, and Spain combined. 

'I'he South has steadily progressed since the war closed. Cap- 
ital and prosperity have flowed thither. More cotton is raised than 
by slave labor. Cotton factories are springing up. Coal mines are 
multiplying. Great cities are being built up. The African race is 
multiplying and improving. The race question is solving itself. 
Loyalty and fraternity are increasing. Schools are multiplying and 
churches prospering. What shall the future be? With a domain 
equal to supporting a thousand million, with the vast storehouses 
of the Almighty beneath, above, and around us, what vision can 
foresee the coming day? 

The following tabulated history tells of the awful price paid by 
this Regiment in blood, suffering, and death that our glorious coun- 
try should be to this generation what it is. 



PART III. 



STATISTICAL TABLES, PERSONAL RECORDS, DEATHS 

BY DISEASE AND ACCIDENT, AND 

BATTLE LOSSES. 

COMPILED P.V CHARLES J. HOUSE. 



PICTURES AND PERSONAL SKETCHES 



BY H. H. SHAW. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

OFFICIAL AND INDIVIDUAL HISTORY OF THE REGIMENT THE 

ORGANIZATION. 

This Regiment was organized and mustered into the I'nited 
States service August 21, 1862, with 37 commissioned officers and 
969 enlisted men, making a total of 1,006. Prior to November i, 
1863, there were added 175 recruits; from November i, 1863, to 
November i, 1864, there were added 965, and after the latter date 
54 more were added, making a total of 1,194 new men added to 
the 1,006 original members, or an even 2,200 in all. 

Both the original men and recruits by years were assigned to 
the field and staff, and to the several companies, as the following 
table shows : 

NUiMBER OF MEN IN THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 





Original, 


Joined 


after Xoven 


iber 1, 






18(12. 


i8(;2. 


ISOS. 


18G4. 


Totals 


Field and Staff, 


12 


2 


I 




15 


Company A, 


lOI 


18 


75 


I 


195 


Company B, 


99 


35 


55 


16 


205 


Company C, 


99 


29 


62 




190 


Company D, 


100 


28 


57 


2 


187 


Company E, 


98 


2 


85 




185 


Company F, 


101 


8 


65 


3 


177 


Company G, 


96 


15 


73 


1 1 


195 


Company H, 


98 


20 


^3 




181 


Company I, 


lOI 


3 


68 


8 


180 


Company K, 


lOI 


15 


52 


2 


170 


Company L, 






155 


5 


160 


Company M, 






^54 


6 


160 



Totals, 1,006 175 965 54 



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In the above table the right hand column of totals does not 
o-ive the total number of men serving, first and last, in the field 
and staff and in the several companies, on account of the large 
number of transfers from one company to another and to the field 
and staff, as the men represented in these totals are counted but 
once and are here placed where they were first permanently 
assigned. To illustrate : The field and staff originally consisted of 
twelve officers and men; there were added, on the return of 1863, 
Chaplain Henry C. Leonard, transferred from the 3d Maine 
Infantry, and Assistant Surgeon Albert R. Lincoln, appointed from 
civil life, and the return of 1864 added the name of Assistant Sur- 
geon Henry A. Reynolds, appointed from civil life, making a total 
of fifteen as shown in the above table, yet fifteen others were trans- 
ferred from the several companies to the field and staff, who are 
here counted only in the companies to which they severally origi- 
nally belonged. The same rule is followed in making up the 
count of the several companies. Company M was largely made up 
of surplus men who had, for a few weeks, been temporarily attached 
to other companies, but are here counted as Company M men only. 
A few original men and one 1863 recruit were transferred from 
other companies to Companies L and M at their formation as non- 
commissioned officers, but are counted only in their original com- 
panies. Besides the three commissioned officers in each of the first 
ten companies, seven of the original field and staff, as well as the 
three added, were commissioned officers, all the others were assigned 
as enlisted men. 

Lemuel W. Carter, George A. Freeman, and Franklin Fremont, 
of Company M, and Aaron Williams, of Company G, were of African 
descent. Thomas Loren, Louis M. Thompson, Thomas Dana, 
Thomas Lewis, Supple Orson, and John Tomar, of Company B, 
John Saul, of Company E, and William H. Over, of Company M, 
were Maine Indians, all except the latter belonging to the Penobscot 
tribe. 

PERSONAL RECORDS. 

In compiling the following personal records of the officers and 
men of the Regiment, the chairman of your committee has consulted 
every available record which had any bearing on the matter. The 



REGIMENTAL RECORDS. 211 

Adjutant General's office at Augusta of course furnished the great 
bulk of the data, but there the records of several hundred of our 
men are incomplete and a very large number are not accounted for 
on the final muster-out rolls. 

In prosecuting the work every application for State pension 
since the war, amounting to over 50,000, counting duplicates, on 
file in the State Pension office, has been examined for facts. Files 
of all the leading newspapers of the State, published during the war, 
and the evidence in pension cases on file in the offices of the num- 
erous pension attorneys in Central and Eastern Maine have been 
carefully scrutinized. Correspondence, more or less extensive, has 
been had with every surviving member of the Regiment whose post- 
office address could be located, but a large number of our members 
failed to answer communications. The work was commenced in 
1885 and has been continued with diligence ever since. The work 
is yet more or less incomplete, and without doubt errors and omis- 
sions will be discovered, but it is offered to you as the result of the 
conscientious efforts of your chairman, covering a period of eighteen 
years. No one can realize the amount of research required in a 
work of this kind and extent until he has a trial of it himself. 

The figures following the names in each case indicate the age 
at time of enlistment, and the letters m. and s. indicate married or 
single. In case of the field and staff' the age was rarely given in 
the records. The date of promotion is given in each case whenever 
possible, but in cases where several promotions were received by an 
individual soldier within the year there was generally no record of 
any except the last. The places of residence among the recuits 
arriving early in 1864, the great majority of whom were either dead 
or absent with wounds when the report was made to the State 
Adjutant General the following autumn, were found to be erroneous 
in several hundred cases. These have been corrected as far as 
possible. The place and date of death of those who have died since 
their discharge and the place of residence of those now living, so 
far as has been ascertained, are given. In cases where neither 
residence nor fact of death is given, nothing is known of the men. 
Doubtless a large majority of such are dead. In cases of transfer 
to the Veteran Reserve Corps, the initial letters V. R. C. are 
used. 



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This record covers the 2,200 officers and men who actually 
joined and served with the Regiment, also the 21 men in the Fort 
Knox. Maine, squad, who remained at that post during their term 
of enlistment, and who were attached to Company L by order of 
Colonel Shepherd a few weeks prior to our final muster out on 
September 11, 1865. In addition, a brief record is given of 54 men 
who were mustered into service as recruits for our Regiment, but for 
one reason or another never reached us. A roster of the 3d Maine 
Battery, as it existed on November i, 1863, is added. 

No attempt has been made to compile the record of the mem- 
bers of the 3d Maine Battery, which was attached to the Regiment 
as Company M for several months and then detached, nor of the 
members of the 17th and 19th Maine Infantry, who joined us about 
the 1st of June, 1865, except those who served with field and staff 
and the three commissioned officers transferred from the 17th 
Maine, and of these only such record as transpired after the 
transfer. 

In order to include such matter as properly belongs in this part 
of the history and to keep the cost of the book at a figure low 
enough so it could be sold at a price within the reach of all, the 
record of each individual soldier is necessarily made brief, but does 
include, so far as could be ascertained, all the essential points 
tending to give a clear record of each. The sketches of officers 
accompanying their pictures, written by Capt. Horace H. Shaw, the 
historian, are, for the same reason, reduced to a few brief lines in 
each individual case. 



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213 




Brevet Major General DANIEL CHAPLIN, Colonel. 

Formerly ALijor 2d Maine Infantry, he was promoted to be the ori,y:inal 
Colonel of the i8th ]\Iaine. He was a born soldier, attractive and mao:netic 
in i:)erson, a fine horseman with commanding; presence. He i;a\e to his offi- 
cers a royal friendship, to his soldiers a fatherly care, and to all a considerate 
appreciation of merit wherever found. He \\asbra\e almost to recklessness, 
but modest withal. His service was that of the RejJ^iment till his wound at 
Deep Bottom broui^ht grief to us and death to our beloved Colonel. 



14 



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m^-''m>-.. 




BvT. Bkic. Ges. THOMAS HAMMOND TALBOT, Lieut. Colonel. 

A C()llei4e-l)red, dis^nified, ^gentlemanly man from a prominent family in 
Maine. Was constantly with the Re,i^iment from muster in. Was in com- 
mand of the ri,y;ht 1)attalion in battle of Spottsylvania Court House, May 19, 
lS64, doin.i;- excellent service. Was in command of right battalion at Milford 
Slation, North Anna, at Totopotomoy commanding the advance line, as also 
at Cold Harbor, and was with us on march to James River. Was seriously 
ill with malarial fever June 15th to i8th. He resumed duty June 19th and 
was in command of Regiment during the battles of June 22d and 23d. Was 
in command of Regiment at Second Deep Bottom and assumed command 
of Brigade after Colonel Chaplin was wounded. Resigned on account of ill 
health .September 14, 1864. Was commissioned Colonel September 17th, 
luit not mustered. Has been a prominent lawyer in Boston since the war. 
Resides at Brookline, Mass., enjoying the rewards of a well-spent, useful life. 



FIELD AND STAFF. 



215 





BvT. Bun;. (;kn. CIIAKLES HAMLIN, 
[Major. 



Lip:lt. lloKATlo i'lTCHEK. 

Ol'AHTEHMASTPni. 



Brevet Bkk;adier General CHARLMS HAMLIN, Major. 

The call for thrt-e hundred thousand found him a risini;- younsj: lawyer of 
Hancock County, already devotins^ himself to his country's service by recruit- 
ino: and helpin_^ oro;^anize Maine's early re«;iments. He possessed rare tact, 
w hich w ith his kindly, gracious manners gave him great popularity with ofti- 
cers and men. Desiring more active service, he was transferred April 27, 
1S63, to the staff of Maj. Gen. Hiram G. Berry. After (General Berry's death 
he served on stalT of Gen. A. P. Howe and was prominent in the active ser- 
vice with both Generals. Since the war General Hamlin has been prominent 
in the legal and political life of the State, serving as City Solicitor of Bangor, 
Register in Bankruptcy, member and Speaker of Maine House, and Chair- 
man Executive Committee Maine Gettysburg Commission. Is Commander 
Maine Commandery Loyal Legion. Worthy son of our much loved and 
distinguished \'ice President Hannibal Hamlin. A good friend to the First 
Maine and popular with his comrades. Is Reporter of Decisions for Maine. 
His residence is l)anu'or. 



Lieut. H0RATI(3 PLPCHER, Oiartermaster Ekihtee.nth Maine. 

Formerly Ouartermaster Sergeant of the 2d Maine, he was jMepared for 
his work. Physically and mentally active and tireless, w ith a mind synunet- 
rical and discreet, a firmness never fretful, and a kindness all-embracing, he 
was the man for this most arduous ofltice, the business man of the Regiment. 
He was called to an important service before we left for the front. He has 
been prominent in mercantile affairs since the war. 



2l6 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 





.IKIT. STEPHEN C. TALBOT, 
Adjutant. 



Chaplain HENRY C. LEONARD. 



LiEiTEXAXT STEPHEN C. TALBOT, Adjutant. 

The successor to Russell B. Shepherd, he required ability and he had it. 
A systematic, quiet, discreet man, he commanded the respect of his brother 
officers and superiors, and provoked the hostility of none. His ability won 
him i^romotion as Major in another regiment and he departed with the good 
wishes of all. He has since the war been prominent in the business world. 



Dear old 
rejiose to his 



Chaplain HENRY C. LEONARD. 
:)ul ! Bless the dear Chaplain ! Peace be to his shades and 



ishes ! and God bless his good wife and daughters ! This 
is the story told by the First Maine of^cers and men, who remember them 
most affeclionatelv. 





i;"riii:rs k i'aink 

Si i((;|.;(.N. 



JEROME B. ELKINS, 

Assistant ,Sur(ie(»n. 



FIELD AND STAFF. 



217 



Surgeon ROTHEUS E. PAINE 

Was appointed from Hampden, where he had j^racticed as a physician. 
His service with the Re.ia^iment covered the period of acchmation throLit;h 
w hich our soldiers from the far North had to pass on beinj:: transferred to 
the latitude of WashinjJton. He resi«^ned his ofhce February 19, 1864, while 

the Re.u,iment was still in garrison. 

SiKGEox JEROME r>. ELKINS 

Joined as Assistant Surgeon from Ashlantl. I^^iithful, hard-working, and 
competent, we relied on him from the first. His skill as a surgeon kept him 
much of the time at Division Hospital, where he did most excellent service, 
lea\ing his regimental duty with his assistants. 





RI^SSELL B. SHEPHERD, 

Colonel. 



ZKMKO A. SMITH. 

LlKlT. CoLOXKL. 



Brevet Brigadier General Rl^SSELL P,. SHEPHERD, Colonel. 

Coming to the i8th Maine from the halls of learning and the refining 
inHuences of a teacher's life, he was our first Adjutant, second Major, second 
Lieutenant Colonel, and Colonel. In all these positions he was ecjual to the 
task and adequate to the work. A quiet, studious man, modest and unas- 
suming, he never sought to he conspicuous. Able and industrious himself, 
he honored ability, diligence, and fidelity in others. With a comprehensive 
mind, quick of discernment and prompt to decide, he was an able com- 
mander for regiment or brigade. He has been j^rominent in business and 
iniblic life in jiositions of responsibility and honor since the war. He died 
at his home in .Skowhegan, Januar\- i. 1901. 



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15rkvf:t Coi.oxki. Z?:MR0 A. SMITH, Lieutenant Colonel. 
A scholar from the halls of learniiii^ and culture of teaching, he rose by 
merit to the sec<jnd i:>lace in the Regiment. Loyal to his friends, just and 
kind to all, he could not fail to be popular with officers and men. He com- 
manded the Regiment during most of the winter of 1865 and in all its battles 
rom Sailor's Creek to Appomattox. He was prominent in newspaper and 
political life in Maine after the war. Was publisher and editor of a paper in 
the West, and afterward political editor of the Boston Journal and later of 
the Indianapolis Journal \.o the time of his death. 





(iKOHCJK W. SABINE, CHRISTOPHER V. GROSSMAN, 

Ma.ioi!. Major. 



Major GEORGE W. SABINE. 

Original Captain of Company K. Commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, 
not mustered. Gentleman, soldier, excellent company commander, model 
held officer, brave, able, and effective. He was in all the engagements till 
June 17, 1864. I" til fatally wounded in a sharp engagement with the enemy 
on the evening of that day. He died ]\Lay 26, 1865, after prolonged suffer- 
ing. Had \\W JK-c-n sjiared, this ofirtcer would have become prominent in 
his (oiinlrN "s scrx ice. 

I'.KKVKT CoicxKi. CHRISTOPHER V. GROSSMAN, Major. 

I'nglishmau by birth, intensely American by loyalty and patriotism, he 
ga\ I- III )])ly in-service and blood to his adopted country. An excellent ofti- 
cer, a good soldier, a usehil citizen of P)angor, Surveyor General of Lumber 
for MaiiU'. We give a cut of him and detachment of Company D serving 
lleavv Artilkrv. 



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HARRISON (4. SMITH, CHARLES AV. XrTK, 

Major. ^Ma.tok. 

Major HARRISON G. SMITH. 

Orii^inal Captain of Company H, lie came from Columbia I'^ills. I'^irmer 
and lumberman, sturdy, robust, and practical, he was a most useful ofirtcer 
in the vast constructive work of our early service. He luade no pretension 
beyond what he could do, but i^ave himself and all his talents loyally to his 
country. Brave and unflinchins^; in battle, he did his government .<^ood ser- 
vice and earned the promotion to Major March 26, 1865. He was afterward 
prominent in his native town and died June 12, 1891. 

Major CHARLES W. NUTE 

Came from Lincoln as original First Lieutenant of Company A, promoted 
Captain March 2, 1863. An excellent officer, popular with his men and 
brother officers of all i^rades. Was in all the battles with the Rei^iment dur- 
ing campaign of 1864. Promoted ]\Lajor January 16, 1865. Died of disease 
March 9, 1865. Mrs. Nute, a most estimable lady, came to caiuj? in w inter 
of 1863, bringing the little Captain Herbert. How pleasantly we remeiuber 
both. We recall with sorrow the death of Mrs. Nute by typhoid fe\er at 
camp. Her gracious, kindly presence lives with us. 

Captain HORACE H. SHAW, OrARTKK.MASTKR, 

Joined as private, promoted to Orderly Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, 
Acting Adjutant, Aid on Brigade Staff August, 1863, to July, 1864 ; promoted 
First Lieutenant January 18, 1864, Quartermaster July, 1864 ; commissioned 
Captain October 17, 1864 (not mustered) ; Acting Division Ouartermaster 
and Brigade Quartermaster to muster out, September 11. 1865, at Fort 
Baker. Wounded May 19, 1864. See notes by his coiurades, last chapter. 



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Lieut. HORACE H. SHAAT; 

AlI>-DE-("AMP OX BrKIADE StAFF. 



Lieut. JAMES W. CLARK, 
Adjutant. 



First Lieutenant JAMES \V. CLARK, Adjutant. 

OriL;:inaI First Lieutenant Company E. A most enei'oetic, capable officer, 
zealous in every duty. He paid the fullest measure and price of his loyalty 
w itli his life by wounds at Petersburg- June iSth. His was a family of soldiers. 





< \i-T. IMUNCE A. (iATCMKLL, 

Ad.IL- lANT. 



ALBERT R. LINCOLN, 
Assistant Surgeon. 



FIELD AND STAFF. 



221 



Captain PRINCE A. GATCHELL, Adjitant. 

Originally from Company A, was promoted to Second and Eirst Lieu- 
tenant and transferred to Company M. Wounded at Spottsylvania May 19, 
1864. Succeeded James W. Clark as Adjutant. Received medal of honor 
for meritorious service at battle of Boydton Road, October 27, 1864. Com- 
missioned Captain Company E just previous to muster out, but remained 
as Adjutant till muster out, September 11, 1865. Residence, F>uf1al(), 
Wyoming. 



Assistant Surgeon ALBERT R. LINCOLN 

Joined as Assistant from Dennysville. He was good anywhere, day or 
night. ,A practical, common-sense, loyal soldier, physician, and surgeon. 
One of the best in the army. Practiced with success in Dennysville to time 
of death. See record. 





HENRY A. KEYNOLDS, 

Assistant Surcjf.ox. 



EDWAHl) P. CONN OK 

SUTLKK. 



Assistant Surgeon HENRY A. REYNOLDS 



Was appointed from civil life in Bangor April 16, 1864, and served in 
that capacity until the Regiment was mustered out. He has practiced his 
profession in Winn and Bangor, in this State, and at \arious points in the 
West since leaving the service. 



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FIELD AND STAFF. 

As Mustered August 21, 1862. 
Commissioned Officers. 
*Colonel Daniel Chaplin, Bangor, m., promoted from Major of 
the 2d Maine Infantry; died August 20, 1864, from wounds received 
August 17, 1864. 

tLieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Talbot, Portland, m., commis- 
sioned Colonel September 17, 1864, not mustered; discharged Sep- 
tember 14, 1864. Resides at Brookline, Mass. 

tMajor Charles Hamlin, Orland, appointed Major and Assistant 
Adjutant General of Volunteers April 27, 1863, and transferred to 
staff of Maj. Gen. Hiram G. Berry. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

tAdjutant Russell B. Shepherd, 29, Bangor, promoted Major 
December 30, 1862, Lieutenant Colonel September 17, 1864, and 
Colonel October 17, 1864; slightly wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Died at Skowhegan, Me., January i, 
1901. 

(Quartermaster Horatio Pitcher, Bangor, transferred to Co. C 
January 1, 1863. See Co. C. 

Surgeon Rotheus E. Paine, Hampden, resigned February 19, 
1864. 

Assistant Surgeon Jerome B. Elkins, Ashland, promoted Sur- 
geon March 9, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at 
Old Town, Me., June 6, 1882. 

Chaplain Henry C. Leonard, Waterville, joined by transfer from 
the 3d Maine Infantry October 27, 1862 ; mustered out July 22, 1864. 

No7i-Commissioiied Officers. • 

Sergeant Major John A. Lancy, Bangor, promoted 2d Lieuten- 
ant Co. H January 18, 1864, and transferred. See Co. H. 

(Quartermaster Sergeant Mandel M. Fuller, Boston, ;Mass., pro- 
moted 2d Lieutenant Co. L, to be recruited, December 31, 1862; on 
detached service at Fort Knox, Maine. See Fort Knox Squad. 

Commissary Sergeant Charles Dwinal, Bangor, promoted Quar- 
termaster Sergeant March i, 1863, on detached service at Fort 
Knox, Maine. See Fort Knox Squad. 

'■■ I'.n-vctcil Major (U'lKMiil. t Breveted F>rig:ulier (xeneraL 



FIELD AND STAFF. 



223 



Hospital Steward Benjamin C. Frost, Bangor, promoted 2d 
Lieutenant Co. M March 12, 1864, and transferred. See Co. M. 

Fife Major Nathaniel R. Witham, Bangor, discharged April 12, 
1864. Resides at Brewer, Me. 

Joined after November i, 1862. 
Cominissio7ied Officers. 
Major George W. Sabine, Eastport, promoted from Captain Co. 
K June 13, 1863; commissioned Lieutenant Colonel October 17, 

1864, not mustered; discharged December 10, 1864; died May 26, 

1865, from wounds received June 17, 1864. 

Assistant Surgeon Albert R. Lincoln, Dennysville, commissioned 
December 15, 1862, from civil life; mustered out September 11, 
1865. Died at Dennysville, Me., October 18, 1899. 

Non- Co VI m issioJied Officers. 

Commissary Sergeant George P. Pote, Belfast, appointed March 
I, 1863, from private Co. E; promoted 2d Lieutenant Co. E Novem- 
ber 8, 1864, and transferred. See Co. E. 

Principal Musician Samuel M. Emerson, Bangor, appointed July 
I, 1863, from private Co. D; died of disease September 26, 1863. 

Joined after November i, 1863. 
Co7ninissioiied Officers. 

Major Christopher V. Grossman, Bangor, promoted January 30, 
1864, from Captain Co. D; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged 
December 24, 1864. Breveted Colonel. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Major Zemro A. Smith, promoted September 17, 1864, from 
Captain Co. C; promoted Lieutenant Colonel January 16, 1865; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Breveted CJolonel. Died at 
Indianapolis, Ind,, May 25, 1903. 

Assistant Surgeon Henry A. Reynolds, Bangor, commissioned 
April 16, 1864, from civil life: mustered out September 11, 1865. 

N^o?i- Com 771 issio7ied Officers. 
Sergeant Major Nathan M. Mills, Milford, appointed March 7, 
1864, from private Co. B; wounded June 18, 1864. Drowned in 
Penobscot River, Me., November i, 1864. 



22 4 "^"^ FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Hospital Steward Joshua W. Tuesley, appointed March i8, 1864, 
from private Co. F; discharged June 5, 1865. Resides at Hermon, 
Maine. 

Principal Musician Frederic A. Edwards, Lincoln, appointed 
November 26, 1863, from private Co. A; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Lincoln, Me. 

Joined after November i, 1864. 
Co77ii7iissioned Officers. 

Major Charles W. Nute, Lincoln, promoted January 16, 1865, 
from Captain Co. A; died of disease March 9, 1865. 

Major Harrison G. Smith, Columbia Falls, promoted March 36, 
1865, from Captain Co. H; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Died at Columbia Falls, Me., June 12, 189 1. 

Chaplain Alfred S. Adams, Cherryfield, promoted November 8, 

1864, from private Co. E; resigned May 28, 1865 ; died at Waldo- 
boro. Me., July 24, 1865, on his way home. 

Noil- Com 771 issio7ied Officers. 

Sergeant Major Charles L. Heywood, Bucksport, appointed 
December 1, 1864, from Corporal Co. G; promoted ist Lieutenant 
Co. A February 9, 1865, and transferred. See Co. A. 

Commissary Sergeant Abel J. Curtis, Parkman, appointed 
December 19, 1864, from private Co. E; mustered out June 6, 

1865. Resides at Greenville, Me. 

Principal Musician Andrew C. Sawyer, Levant, appointed 
November i, 1864, from Musician Co. F; appointed Sergeant Major 
March i, 1865; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Principal Musician Nahum McKusick, Foxcroft, appointed 
March i, 1865, from Musician Co. E; mustered out September 11, 
1865. Died at Foxcroft, Me., April 12, 1883. 



Transferred from the Seventeenth Maine. 

Principal Musician Osgood W. Stevens, 27, Saco, s., joined by 
transfer from Non-Commissioned Staff of 17th Maine June 4, 1865; 
transferred to Co. F as private July i, 1865. 



FIELD AND STAFF. 225 

Sergeant Major Granville M. Holt, i8, Lewiston, s., appointed 
July I, 1865, from Sergeant Co. D; mustered out September ii, 
1865. 

Quartermaster Sergeant Horace L. Worcester, 26, Portland, s., 
appointed June 7, 1865, from private Co. B; mustered out Sep- 
tember II, 1865. 

Hospital Steward George E. Dillingham, 20, Augusta, s., 
appointed July i, 1865, from private Co. C ; mustered out September 
11,1865. 

Transferred from the Nineteenth Maine. 

Commissary Sergeant Lemuel C. Grant, 23, Frankfort, s., 
appointed June 7, 1865, from Sergeant Co. I ; mustered out Septem- 
ber 1 1, 1865. 

Principal Musician Charles H. Thompson, 27, Winterport, m., 
appointed July i, 1865, from Musician Co. F; mustered out Sep- 
tember 1 1, 1865. 



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COMPANY A. 

As Mustered August 21, 1862. 








PT. WM. C. CLAKK. Capt. SAM'L E. BURNHAM. 



Captain WILLIAM C. CLARK. 

( )ri,u,inal Caj^itain. A rising; yount^ lawyer of excellent character and 
habits. Would d<)ii1)tless have done excellent service in the severe cam- 
|)aig;ns of his Company, but change of climate and exposure of military life 
cut short the service his loyalty had i)rompted. He resi,2;ned February 16, 
i.S6'^. Has since been a prominent citizen and leading" attorney of Lincoln. 

Captain SAMUEL E. BURNHAM 

Joined as Second Lieutenant, promoted First Lieutenant March 2, 1863, 
and Cai:)tain January 16, 1865. Was wounded in the charge of June i8th. 
He was an admirable officer; faithful and efficient in every duty, just and 
kind lo his men. oblig:ing; and friendly with his brother-officers, he was justly 
jjdpular. Mustered out with his Regiment he has been a prominent citizen 
of Duluth, Minn., where he resides. 

iMkST LiKiTKXANT WARREN A. HUNTRESS 

Joined as Sergeant, promoted to First Serg:eant August 24, 1863, Second 
Lieutenant January i, 1864, First Lieutenant December 13^ 1864. A careful, 
diligent, painstaking officer and a good soldier. Cool and self-possessed in 
the presence of the enemy, careful of his men, practical anywhere, he did 
excellent service till nuister out. Has been a prominent and useful citizen 
since. Resitlcs in Minncai)olis, Minn. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY A. 



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f. 



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First Lt. WAKREN A. HrXTKESS. FrnsT I/r. ('HAS. I.. IIIIVW ( )( )|). 

First Lieitexaxt CHARLES L. HEVWOOD. 
Promoted from SerLi'eant Major. An excellent ofticer. would have 
become prominent as he has since as a citi/en of Kansas. 

Commissuvied Officers. 

Capt. William C. Clark, 26, Lincoln, m., resigned February 16, 
1863. Resides at Lincoln, Me. 

I St Lieut. Charles W. Nute, 27, Lincoln, m., promoted Captain 
March 2, 1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864; promoted Major January 
16, 1865, and transferred. See Field and Staff. 

2d Lieut. Samuel E. Burnham, 32, Lincoln, m., promoted ist 
Lieut. March 2, 1863, and Capt. January 16, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 
1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Duluth, Minn. 

Sergeants. 

Charles Merrill, 21, Lincoln, s., promoted 2d Lieut. March 2, 
1863, and ist Lieut. January i, 1864; wounded June i8, 1864; pro- 
moted Capt. Co. M December 13, 1864, and transferred. See Co. M. 

Prince A. Gatchell, 20, Lincoln, s., promoted 2d Lieut. January 
I, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; Acting Adjutant from June, 1864, 
to muster out of Regiment; promoted ist Lieut. Co. M December 
13, 1864, and transferred. See Co. AL 

Warren A. Huntress, 30, Lincoln, m., promoted ist Sergeant 
x\ugust 24, 1863, 2d Lieut. January 21, 1864, and ist Lieut. Decem- 
ber 13, 1864; slightly wounded October 27, 1864; mustered out 
September 11, 1865. Resides at Minneapolis, Minn. 



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Luther Clay, 24, Lincoln, m., promoted Commissary Sergeant 
January 14, 1864; slightly wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out 
[une 6, 1865. Resides at Lincoln, Me. 

Arthur P. Budge, 21, Springfield, s., wounded June 18, 1864; 
promoted 2d Lieut. Co. M February 9, 1865, and transferred. See 

Co. M. 

Corporals. 

Frederic A. Edwards, 25, Lincoln, s., returned to ranks at own 
request; promoted Principal Musician and transferred to non-com- 
missioned staff November 26, 1863. See Field and Staff. 

David F. Averill, 27, Lincoln, s:, promoted Sergeant August 24, 
1863; discharged for disability March 20, 1865. Died at East 
Lincoln, Me., May 18, 1878. 

Joseph W. Knights, :^2i^ Lincoln, m., promoted Sergeant Janu- 
ary 17, 1864; wounded October 27, 1864; discharged June 10, 1865. 
Died at East Lincoln, Me., June 28, 1881. 

Albert P. Eastman, 20, Island Falls, s., promoted Sergeant in 
1863 and 2d Lieut. Co. M March 12, 1864, and transferred. See 
Co. M. 

Jonathan Clay, Jr., 29, Burlington, m., promoted Sergeant ; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

James Warren, 45, Lincoln, m., returned to ranks at own 
request and appointed Artificer March i, 1864; wounded May 19, 

1864, June 18, 1864, and March 25, 1865 ; mustered out June 6, 

1865. Resides at Boulder, Colo. 

Peter Devou, 25, Macwahoc Plantation, s., discharged June 12, 
1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Augustus M. Turner, 24, Lincoln, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
transferred to V. R. C. and discharged therefrom' June 29, 1865. 

Musiciatis. 

William C. Shaw, 18, Springfield, s., discharged June 5, 1865. 

Charles F. Davis, 18, Lincoln, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Lincoln, Me. 

Wagoner. 

Benjamin Richardson, 24, Lincoln, s., returned to ranks; 
wounded May 19, 1864 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Eden, 
Me., September 11, 1895. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY A. 229 

Privates. 

Hiram R. Bailey, 19, Springfield, s., promoted Corporal June 
14, 1864, and Sergeant July i, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Carroll, Me. 

William Benson, t^Z^ Mattawamkeag, s.,. mustered out June 6, 
1865. Died at Togus, Me., November 29, 1895. 

Benjamin Berry, 22, Canaan, m., promoted Corporal November 
2, 1863, Sergeant January 14, 1864, and ist Sergeant April 20, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at 
Togus, Me. 

Nathaniel Bodwell, Jr., 2^2, Lincoln, m., died of disease March 
18, 1863. 

Isaac E. Bowley, t^-^, Macwahoc Plantation, m., prisoner June 
12, 1864; died in prison January 11, 1865. 

Otis H. Bruce, 19, Lincoln, s., promoted Corporal; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged June 16, 1865, Died at Lincoln, Me., 
November i, 1866. 

Atwood Burnham, 18, Hudson, s., promoted Corporal Novem- 
ber I, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Robert Clifford, 18, Lee, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. Died 
in Minnesota, April 18, 1894. 

John A. Davis, 18, Lincoln, s., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged October 13, 1864. Resides at Clarence, Iowa. 

Lorenzo D. Davis, 31, Mattawamkeag, m., died of disease 
November 11, 1862. 

William C. Davis, ^t^, Lowell, m., discharged January 25. 1864. 
Died at Kingman, Me., July, 1889. 

Simon Devou, 22, Bangor, m., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged October 6, 1864. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Andrew J. Dill, 23, Mattawamkeag, s., wounded June 12, 1864; 
died of wounds July 31, 1864. 

Charles H. Dill, 32, Mattawamkeag, m., wounded June 18, 
1864; discharged March 23, 1865. Died at Stacyville, Me., Octo- 
ber 8, 1877. 

John G. Dolley, 18, Springfield, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Sherman, Me. 



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Lvman H. Dolley, 18, Lincoln, s., appointed Wagoner July i, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Re- 
sides at Lincoln, Me. 

Isaac Donham, 44, Island Falls, m., discharged January 25, 
1864; died at City Point, Va., July 13, 1864, then a member of Co. 
E, 31st Maine Infantry. 

Edward Emery, 29, Sherman, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Enfield, Me. 

Wesley Emery, 18, Sherman, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Sherman, Me. 

Oscar R. Fish, 19, Lincoln, s., discharged April 30, 1863. 

Amasa S. Flagg, 25, Hudson, s., promoted Corporal November 
26, 1862 ; killed June 18, 1864. 

Thomas B. Gifford, 26, Lee, m., promoted Corporal January 13, 
1863. and Sergeant January 26, 1864; wounded and prisoner Octo- 
ber 27, 1864, exchanged; discharged May 20, 1865. Died at Pat- 
ten, Me., January 27, 1882. 

Jeremiah Glidden, 27, Chester, s., promoted Corporal March i, 
1865 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Woodville, Me. 

Ijenjamin M. Griffin, 22, Lowell, m., promoted Corporal Novem- 
ber 2, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 24, 1865. 
Resides at Old Town, Me. 

lienjamin G. Grover, 36, Burlington, m., wounded April 6, 1865; 
discharged July 7, 1865. Died at Enfield, Me., November 25, 1883. 

Enoch Grover, 26, Springfield, m., discharged February 25, 1863. 

William Harmon, 20, Winn, s., promoted Corporal June 12, 
1864; wounded June 18, 1864, and April 6, 1865; mustered out 
June 6, 1865. Resides at Brainard, Minn. 

Austin Heath, 21, Lincoln, s., discharged February i, 1864. 

Amos Holt, 21, Springfield, s., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged February 14, 1865. Died at Springfield, Me. 

Henry W. Howard, 22, Medway, m., killed June 18, 1864. 

John O. Hughes, 27, Medway, m., died May 26, 1864, of 
wounds received May 19, 1864. 

Alvin W. Hurd, 21, Lincoln, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Lincoln, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY A. 23 1 

Addison C. Keen, 20, Chester, s., prisoner June 12, 1864; died 
in prison August 9, 1864. 

Aaron Kneeland, 23, Lincoln, s., discliarged December i, 1862. 
Died at Bangor, Me., November, 1870. 

Willard Knights, 20, Lee, s., discharged December i, 1862. 
Died at Lee, Me., July 29, 1901. 

George Lee, 34, Benedicta, s., died of disease August 26, 1864. 

Samuel C. Leland, 18, Winn, s., deserted vSeptember i, 1865. 

Thomas G. Libby, 18, Lincoln, s., wounded June 17, 1S64; 
discharged April 21, 1865. Resides at Vinalhaven, Me. 

Daniel McCurdy, 43, Chester, m., killed June 18, 1864. 

John R. Morrill, 21, Newburg, s., wounded ^lay 19, 1864, and 
September, 1864; appointed Artificer February i, 1865; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Resides at Brewer, Me. 

Charles H. Morrison, 20, Topsfield, s., wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged April 18, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Hugh A. Morrison, 18, Topsfield, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Died May, 1870. 

Horace Morse, 43, Sherman, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Charles Noble, 22, Winn, s., discharged January 5, 1863. 
Resides at Oakland, Maine. 

Henry Noble, 21, Winn, s., transferred to V. R. C. September 
17, 1S63. 

Isaac L. Olmstead, 22, Springfield, s., wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged February 14, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., July 24, 1903. 

Fdward C. Osborn, 21, Lincoln, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Bay View, Washington. 

James B. Parsons, 19, Glenburn, s., promoted Corporal January 
14, 1864, and Sergeant March 20, 1865; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Pontiac, 111. 

Horace L. Peasley, 24, Burlington, s., wounded May 19. 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Burlington, Me. 

Francis L. Philbrook, 20, Prentiss, s., prisoner June 12, 1864; 
died in prison August 3, 1864. 

Frederic Philbrook, 20, Prentiss, s., prisoner June 12, 1864; 
died in prison November 15, 1864. 



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Andrew J. Pierce, 26, Hudson, m., discharged April 21, 1865. 
Resides at Hudson. Me. 

William H. Pratt, 22, Macwahoc Plantation, s., promoted 
Corporal in 1863 ; died of disease April 25, 1864. 

Jonathan G. Rideout, 26, Lincoln, m., appointed Artificer 
January 14, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged February 
24, 1865. Died at Lee, Me. 

Herod Robinson, 30, Exeter, m., appointed Artificer January 
14, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 19, 1865. 
Died at Exeter, Me., March 13, 1902. 

Joseph E. Robinson, 21, Exeter, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Glenburn, Me. 

William H. Robinson, 27, Canaan, m., mustered out June 6, 
1865. Died at Togus, Me., July 10, 1902. 

George C. Rounds, 23, Lincoln, s., accidentally shot in the arm 
at Fort Sumner and was pensioned for the wound, but the date of 
discharge does not appear. Died at Anson, Me., 1890. 

Andrew J. Rowe, 29, Sherman, s., died July 29, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18, 1864. 

Kri Rowe, 20, Sherman, s., prisoner June 12, 1864; died in 
prison August 10, 1864. 

Jkaly Runnells, 40, Medway, m., died August 9, 1864, of 
wounds received May 19, 1864. 

Daniel S. Scott, 18, Woodville, s., promoted Corporal April 20, 
1864: was Color Bearer in fall of 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Richmond, Me., December 22, 1894. 

Martin Scott, 18, Chester, s., promoted Corporal January 14, 
1864, and Sergeant February 16, 1865; wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. K.esides at Little Falls, Minn. 

William W. Scott, 18, Chester, s., promoted Corporal; captured 
Confederate Hag October 27, 1864; wounded April 6, 1865; dis- 
charged June 13, 1865. Resides at Duluth, Minn. 

losiah W. Smith, 18, Benedicta, s., died of disease January 31, 
1863. 

Daniel W. Snow, 25, Newburg, s., promoted Corporal; killed 
on the color guard May 19. 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY A. 233 

Albert Spearin, 20, Springfield, s., wounded June 22, 1864; 
discharged June 12, 1865. Resides at Three Rivers, Penn, 

George F. Stanwood, 22, \\'oodville, s., died June 25, 1864, of 
wounds received May 19, 1864. 

Thomas H. Stanwood, 27, Woodville, m., promoted Corporal 
January 14, 1864; wounded, date unknown: discharged June 13, 
1865. 

John H. Taylor, 23, Winn, s., promoted Corporal January 14, 
1864, Sergeant April 20, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. 

Samuel K. Thornton, 26, Lincoln, s., promoted Corporal April 
18, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Springfield, Me, 

Charles H. Tibbetts, 19, Burlington, s., discharged February 
17, 1863. Resides at Newcastle, Col. 

William W. P. Tibbetts, 22, Springfield, m., discharged February 
17, 1864. Died at Monmouth, Me., April, 1869. 

John R. Towle, 32, Holden, m., wounded May 19, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Dexter, Me. 

Jonathan Tracy, 24, Amity, s., discharged January 25, 1864. 
Resides at Canton, Me. 

Alonzo S.Tripp, 31, Burlington, m., discharged December 3, 
1862. Died at Burlington, Me., June 28, 1895. 

George W. Tucker, 29, Lincoln, m., wounded June 22, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at East Winn, Me. 

John E. Waite, 25, Medway, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Lagrange, Me. 

James H. ^^'est, 18, Lincoln, s., transferred to V. R. C. and 
discharged therefrom March 22, 1865. Resides at East Lowell, Me. 

Ivory S. White, 24, Lowell, s., promoted Corporal August 24, 
1863; discharged June 5, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Moses P. Wing, 30, Dyer Brook, m., promoted Corporal Novem- 
ber 26, 1862, and Sergeant in 1864; died July 12, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18, 1864. 

Adelbert Witham, 18, Lincoln, s., died July 21, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19, 1864. 



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Joined after November i, 1862. 

Michael Boucher, 32, Calais, m., mustered March 24, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; transferred to V, R. C. and discharged 
therefrom November 14, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., December 
18, 1872. 

Josiah Burton, 34, Calais, s., mustered May 11, 1863; dis- 
charged February i, 1864. 

William Carr, 34, Calais, s., mustered May 11, 1863 ; mustered 
out September 11, 1865. Resides at Calais, Me. 

Daniel Fitzpatrick, 21, Bangor, s., mustered January 6, 1863 : 
promoted Corporal ; killed June 18, 1864. 

Michael Flood, 27, Portland, s., mustered May 4, 1863 ; 
deserted April 22, 1864. 

Thomas H. Griffin, 21, Lincoln, s., mustered March 27, 1863; 
died June 22, 1864, of wounds received May 24, 1864. 

David Irving, 24, Calais, s., mustered May i, 1863; deserted 
December i r, 1863. 

• James Kingston, 24, Calais, s., mustered March 30, 1863 : 
deserted finally May 15, 1864. 

Franklin Lyon, 43, Lincoln, m., mustered February 27, 1863; 
died of disease September 3, 1863. 

Cyrus S. Maxwell, 21, Caribou, s., mustered February 10, 1S63; 
died of disease February 28, 1863. 

John Murphy, 42, Houlton, m., mustered February 24, 1863; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

George E. Osborn, 18, Lincoln, s., mustered February 10, 1863; 
promoted Corporal July 1, 1865 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at Dushville, Mich. 

William H. Pulk, 18, Calais, s., mustered April 15, 1863 ; died 
of disease August 16, 1863. 

James Skein, 40, Portland, m., mustered May 4, 1863; deserted 
April 22, 1864. 

Thomas Sullivan, 19, Lincoln, s., mustered February 27, 1863 ; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged May 18, 1865. Resides at 
East P,rownfield, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY A. 235 

John Tolle, 35, Calais, s., mustered May 27, 1863; deserted 
March 28, 1864. 

George Tourtillott, 23, Lincoln, s., mustered February 10, 1863; 
deserted February 22, 1864. 

James Turner, 27, Calais, s., mustered May i, 1863 ; trans- 
ferred to the navy May 5, 1864. 

Joined after November i, 1863. 

James P. Annis, ^;^, Hermon, m., mustered December 15, 1863; 
died of disease December 12, 1864. 

Isaac P. Avery, 32, Unity, m., mustered January 4, 1864; dis- 
charged March 4, 1864. Resides at Brewer, Me. 

Jeremiah S. Bartlett, 25, Newburg, m., mustered December 16, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 23, 1865. 
Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Albert B. Berry, 21, Brownville, m., mustered December 24, 
1863 ; discharged June 6, 1865. Resides at Brownville, Me. 

Manly S. Brown, 18, Levant, s., mustered December 19, 1863 ; 
w^ounded June 18, 1^64; discharged June 13, 1865. Resides at 
Shell Lake, Wis. 

Robert W. Bruce, 18, Lincoln, s., mustered November 30, 1863; 
discharged January 14, 1865. Died at Lincoln, Me., May 31, 1865. 

Charles W. Carson, 18, Ftna, s., mustered December 15, 1863; 
w^ounded June 18, 1864; discharged June i, 1865. Resides at 
North Derby, Vt. 

Elijah H. Clements, 31, Newburg, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
promoted Corporal March 24,-1865, and Sergeant July i, 1865; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Newburg, Me. 

Nathan C. Cole, 42, Newburg, m., mustered January i, 1864; 
wounded June 3, 1864; discharged February 14, 1865. 

Roger Connoley, 29, Augusta, mustered August 13, 1864; died 
in prison of wounds received October 27, 1864, date unknown. 

Noah Cross, 22, Barnard, m., mustered December 22, 1863; 
prisoner June 22, 1864; died in prison August 9, 1864. 

John P. Crowley, 19, Ellsworth, s., mustered December 21, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 



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Levi D. Curtis, 44, Newburg, m., mustered December 15, 1863; 
wounded June 3, 1864; appointed Wagoner June 7, 1865 ; mustered 
out September ti, 1865. Died at Dixmont, Me. 

John C. Davis, 18, Corinth, s., mustered December 12, 1863; 
deserted August 19, 1865. 

Randall M. Davis, 28, Lincoln, s., mustered December 22, 1863; 
promoted Corporal; prisoner September 9, 1864, exchanged; dis- 
charged June 5, 1865. Resides at Dorchester, Mass. 

Scribner H. Davis, 26, Machias, m., mustered December 18, 
1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

Turner E. Davis, 37, Machias, m., mustered December 18, 
1863; deserted September 10, 1864. 

George W. Dill, 45, Springfield, m., mustered December 18, 
1863; discharged June 5, 1865. Died at Springfield, Me., Decem- 
ber I, 1898. 

Benjamin Dow, :^:^, Lincoln, s., mustered November 30, 1863 ; 
wounded May 31, 1864; died of disease October i, 1864. 

Joseph C. Dunn, 29, No. t^^ Plantation, Hancock County, m., 
mustered December 15, 1863; wounded June 27, 1864; transferred 
to V. R. C. and discharged therefrom August 22, 1865. Resides at 
(ireat Pond, Me. 

George J)uren, 40, Mattawamkeag, m., mustered January 2, 
1S64; died xApril 10, 1865, of wounds received June 18, 1864. 

Daniel M. Edwards, 19, Lincoln, s., mustered November 30, 
1863; discharged June 6, 1865. Resides at Woonsocket, R. L 

Marcellus L. Fisher, 20, Corinth, s., mustered December 14, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; transferred to V. R. C. and dis- 
charged therefrom Septemper 15, 1865. Resides a-t Kenduskeag, Me. 

John Memming, t,^, Calais, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded June 12, 1864; discharged May 23, 1865. 

George Gee, 23, Exeter, N. H., mustered September 26, 1864; 
deserted August i, 1865. 

John Griffiths, 43, Richmond, m., mustered January 9, 1864; 
died of disease January 1, 1865. 

Andrew Hooper, 39, Machias, m., mustered December 18, 
1863; wounded September 30, 1864; discharged September i, 
1865. Kesides at Machias. Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY A. 237 

George W. Hooper, i8, Machias, s., mustered December i8, 
1863; wounded June i8, 1864; discharged at Boston, Mass., 
October 4, 1866. 

Arthur F. Howard, 18, Brownville, s., mustered December 23, 
1863; prisoner June 22, 1864; exchanged February 26, 1865; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Joseph Jellerson, 23, Monroe, s., mustered December 28, 1863; 
discharged November 14, 1864. Died June 20, 1865. 

Edward Jenness, 21, Corinth, s., mustered December 14, 1863 ; 
wounded June 17, 1864; discharged April 10, 1865. Resides at 
Kenduskeag, Me. 

Francis R. Jewell, 18, Lincoln, s., mustered January 4, 1864. 
died of disease in August, 1865. 

Walter K. Kelley, 40, Dexter, m., mustered January i, 1864, 
marked as absent sick at muster out. 

James Kennedy, 44, Calais, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
discharged March 4, 1864. Died at Togus, Me., July 10, 1901. 

Nathaniel Ladd, 34, Williamsburg, m., mustered December 8, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 13, 1865. 

Charles H. Lancaster, 34, Corinna, m., mustered December 
12, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged December 6, 1864. 
Resides at Canaan, Me. 

John N. Leonard, 19, Newburg, s., mustered December i6, 
1863 ; died of disease June 25, 1864. 

Cyrus A. Lord, 28, Hampden, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Charles M. Lovejoy, 21, Wayne, s., mustered December 8, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged November 24, 1864. 
Resides at North Wayne, ^le. 

Arthur H. Maguire, 26, Milo, s., mustered December 16, 1863; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Milo, Me. 

William Mansell, 31, Charleston, m., mustered December 14, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 6, 1865. Died at 
Bangor, Me., May 14, 1898. 

James L. Marston, 18, Machias, s., mustered December 21, 
1863; mustered out September n, 1865. Resides at Machias, Me. 



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lohn Miller, 21, Stockton, s., mustered December 30, 1863; 
wounded March 25, 1865; discharged June 10, 1865. 

Thomas M. Neal, 25, Burlington, s., mustered December 6, 
1863 : died February 20, 1864. 

Horatio Nelson, 30, Lincoln, m., mustered November 30, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides 
at Lee, Me. (East Winn post office.) 

Israel H. Nute, 18, Lincoln, s., mustered October 10, 1863; 
discharged June 13, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Dennis O'Leary, 27, Bangor, mustered September 21, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., May. 21, 1897. 

William Pendleton, 26, Burlington, m., mustered November 30, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged February 9, 1865. 
Died at Burlington, Me., August 19, 1865. 

Melvin J. Perry, 25, Corinna, m., mustered December 14, 1863; 
died of disease January 18, 1864. 

Joseph Pooler, 21, Waterville, s., mustered November 18, 1863; 
died July 14, 1864, of wounds received June 18, 1864. 

Hiram D. Raymond, 22, Ripley, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged January 14, 1865. Resides at 
Ripley, Me. 

Horace S. Reed, 26, Orono, m., mustered January 2, 1864; 
discharged March 4, 1864. Resides at Orono, Me. 

Oilman Rice, 22, Lewiston, s., mustered December 17, 1863; 
discharged August 3, J864. 

Horatio J. Rigney, 27, Dalton, N. H., s., mustered September 
28, 1864; discharged September 12, 1865. Resides at Concord, N.H. 

John C. Ritchie, 22, Hampden, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
died June 24, 1864, of wounds received June 18, 1864. 

Philander W. Rowell, 28, Montville, m., mustered November 2, 
1863 ; wounded June 22, 1864; discharged June 5, 1865. Resides 
at Montville, Me. 

Hiram F. Savage, 18, Milo, s., mustered December 12, 1863 ; 
wounded August 25, 1864; discharged December 19, 1864. 

George W. Scott, 21, Chester, s., mustered December 17, 1863; 
deserted in action May 19, 18C4. Resides at Little Falls, Minn. 



RECORDS OF COINIPANY A. 



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Henry H. Scott, 18, Chester, s., mustered December t8, 1863 ; 
promoted Corporal July i, 1865 ; mustered out September n, 1865. 

John B. Scott, 22, Chester, s., mustered December 17, 1863; 
died June 19, 1864, of wounds received June 18, 1864. 

William J. Smith, 18, Newport, s., mustered December 16, 1863 ; 
wounded June 2, 1864; discharged February 2, 1865. Resides at 
Gardiner, Maine. 

Albro W. Spencer, 18, Ellsworth, s., mustered Dec. 18, 1863; 
discharged May 22, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

George W. Sprague, 18, Cherryfield, s., mustered December 8, 
1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 10, 1865. 

Willard A. Stearns, 18, Jefferson, s., mustered January 2, 1864; 
discharged March 4, 1864. 

John M. Steward, 39, Monson, m., mustered December 16, 
1863 : killed March 31, 1865. 

Charles W. Stewart, 18, Milo, s., mustered December 16, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June i, 1865. Died in New 
Mexico in the Regular Army. 

William H. Stewart, 28, Greenfield, N. B., s., mustered Decem- 
ber 7, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; transferred to V. R. C. and 
discharged therefrom September 19, 1865. Resides at the Soldiers' 
Home, Milwaukee, Wis. 

John O. Stinchfield, 18, Brownville, s., mustered December 24, 
1863; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Anoka, Minn. 

Francis A. Sullivan, 18, Lincoln, s., mustered July 28, 1864; 
wounded October 7, 1864; discharged July 29, 1865. ^^^^d May 
24, 1884. 

Samuel Thornton, 45, Brewer, m., mustered November 10, 1863 ; 
discharged June 25, 1865. Died at Springfield, Me., December 11, 
1892. 

Liberty B. Tracy, 22, Amity, s., mustered December 18, 1863 ; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Amity, Me. 

Frederic H. Tucker, 23, Cherryfield, s., mustered December 17, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal November i, 1864, Sergeant June 7, 1865; 
wounded May 19, 1864, and April 6, 1865 ; mustered out September 
II, 1865. 



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Thomas B. Walker, 2>^, Trenton, m., mustered January 6, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged February 26, 1865, Resides 
at North Hancock, Me. 

William C. Warren, 20, Lincoln, s., mustered November 30, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 24, 1865. Re- 
sides at Lincoln, Me. 

Robert Wooster, 42, Cherryfield, m., mustered December 17, 
1863 ; deserted May 5, 1864. 

Joined after November i, 1864. 
Conwiissioned Officer. 

ist Lieut. Charles L. Hey wood, 21, Bucksport, s., joined Feb- 
ruary 16, 1864, from Sergeant Major; mustered out September 11, 
1865. Resides at North Topeka, Kan. 

Priimte. 

Edw^ard G. Oilman, 38, Cornish, m., mustered October 8, 1864; 
died of disease December 16, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY B. 



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COMPANY B. 
As AIusiERED August 21, 1862. 





Brevet Major FREDERIC C. LOW 

Joined as First Lieutenant and promoted Captain. Was with his Com- 
pany in all the service of the Regiment and all its battles. Was a competent 
and trustworthy officer, loyal, patriotic, and devoted to the best interests of 
his Company and Regiment. Was wounded at Sailor's Creek in the thickest 
of the fight and discharged May 15, 1865. Has maintained a lively interest 
in the regimental organization and has done more than any other in gather- 
ing and preserving pictures and data for this history. 



Captain SAMUEL W. DAGGETT. 

A promising young man, a born soldier, prompt, active, and progressive. 
His Company and his camp reflected the neatness of his personal appear- 
ance. Brave and unflinching in battle, he paid the full measure of sacrifice 
June iS, and died of wounds July i, 1S64. 



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SAMUEL W. T)A(t:.KT1T. 



1ST Lt. ANDREW J. HILTON. 



First Lieutenant ANDREW J. HILTON 

Joined as Sergeant, from Glenburn. As Sergeant he was one of the 
best. Promoted First Lieutenant Januarj' iS, 1864. As Lieutenant he was 
alert, quick to grasp the situation, ]o\-al to his men and popular. Jack, as 
we called him, fitted anywhere. Wounded June 18, and discharged Sep- 
tember 20, 1S64. Died July 6. 1S87. 







1.1 . ALl'.Kirr (i. Al'.i'.OTT. 1ST Lt. .MILES McKENNEY. 

Lieutenant ALBERT G. ABBOTT 

Joined as Sergeant. Promoted Second Lieutenant .NLarch 23, 1S64, for 
efficiency as Ouartermaster Sergeant. Was in battles of Spottsylvania, Mil- 
ford Station, Totopotomoy, and Cold Harbor. Killed June 18, 1864. He 
possessed many qualities of a soldier of high degree. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY P.. 243 

First Lieutenant MILES McKENNEV 

Joined as Sergeant, promoted Quartermaster Sergeant, Second Lieuten- 
ant, and First Lieutenant November 8, 1864. Was with his Company during 
the campaigns of 1864, and participated in its marches and engagements. 
Discharged .ALarch 11, 1865. Ls a merchant residing at East Corinth, Me. 





Lt. ISAAC N. MORGAN. Lt, HE.MAX 1'. S.MlTll. 

Lieutenant ISAAC N. MORGAN 

Joined as Sergeant, promoted Second Lieutenant. Was severely 
wounded in eye while in battle May 19, 1864, and was discharged on account 
of wound. See record below. 

Lieutenant HEMAN P. SMITH 

Joined as Corporal. Promoted for efficiency to Sergeant, where his 
ability advanced him to that most trying and responsible place of Orderly. 
\\'as wounded June iS, 1864, after participating in all previous battles. Was 
discharged on account of wounds August 21, 1S65. Has become prominent 
and prosperous as a publisher and citi/en of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

First Lieutenant BENJAMIN C. FROST. 

Formerly our excellent Hospital Steward. Well known and popular 
throughout the Regiment. Did excellent service to the end. 

Brevet Captain CASSIUS C. ROBERTS, First Lieutenant 

Promoted from Second Lieutenant Company L. A young man of excel- 
lent ability and capacity for a higher office, which he would have reached 
had his services been longer needed. He served the last few months as 
Aid-de-camp on the staff of General Harding, commanding northern de- 
fenses of Washington. Has been prominent and prosperous as an editor 
and citizen of Chicago, where he resides. 



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1ST Lt. HEN.I\-MIN C. frost. 1ST Lt. CASSIUS C. ROBERTS. 

Coinmissio7ied Officers. 

Capt. Samuel \V. Daggett, 24, Bangor, s., died July i, 1864, of 
wounds received June 18. 

I St Lieut. Frederic C. Low, 25, Bangor, s., promoted Capt. July 
27, 1864; wounded April 6, 1865; breveted Major; discharged 
May 15, 1865. Resides at Brewer, Me. 

2d Lieut. Charles E. Robinson, 24, Bangor, discharged January 
4, 1864. 

Sergeajits. 

Stephen Hall, 40, St. Albans, m., deserted February 8, 1863. 
Died at Guilford, Me., November 17, 1889. 

Andrew J. Hilton, 28, Glenburn, m., promoted ist Lieut. Jan- 
uary 18, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged September 20, 
1S64. Died July 6, 1887. 

Charles W. Lenfest, 22, Milford, s., promoted ist Sergeant 
lebruary i, 1863, 2d Lieut. January 18, 1864, 1st Lieut. Co. M 
March 12, 1864, and transferred. See Co. M. 

Isaac N. Morgan, 21, Brewer, m., promoted 2d Lieut. January 
iS, 1S64; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged August 15, 1864. 
Died at South Thomaston, Me., March 31, 1891. 

Albert (j. Abbott, 32, JJangor, m., promoted Quartermaster 
Sergeant, 2d Lieut. March 23, 1864; killed June 18, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY B. 



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Corporals. 

William H. Welch, 34, Bradford, m., wounded October 27, 1864, 
and April 6, 1865 ; discharged June 2, 1865. Died at Philadelphia, 
Penn., winter of 1888-9. 

Miles McKenney, 23, Bangor, s., promoted Quartermaster Ser- 
geant, 2d Lieut. July 27, 1864, and ist Lieut. November 8, 1864; 
discharged March 11, 1865. Resides at East Corinth, Me. 

Addison C. Percival, 19, Hudson, s., promoted Sergeant: killed 
May 19, 1864. 

Nathaniel S. Hoyt, 32, Bangor, m., discharged May 23, 1865. 
Died at Bangor, Me., February 26, 1894. 

Gustavus A. Watson, 18, Bangor, s., promoted Sergeant: died 
September 7, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

William A. Webster, 20, Bangor, s., promoted Sergeant January 
23, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864: discharged May 22, 1865. 

Charles H. Pond, 27, Bangor, s., appointed Artificer January i, 
1864; discharged July 4, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., 1883. 

Heman P. Smith, 19, Orrington, s., promoted Sergeant Febru- 
ary I, 1863, ist Sergeant January 23, 1864, commissioned 2d Lieut. 
July 27, 1864, not mustered; wounded June 18, 1864: discharged 
August 21, 1865. Resides at Jirooklyn, N. Y. 

Wagoner. 

Charles W. Jones, 44, Bangor, m., wounded July 31, 1864; dis- 
charged June 6, 1865. 

Privates. 

William Alexander, 27, Bangor, m., killed June 18, 1864. 

Aretus H. Baker, 23, Orrington, s., died of disease October 6, 
1862. 

John W. Beede, 30, Brewer, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at the Soldiers' Home. Los Angeles, Cal. 

Henry Bell, 19, Bradford, s., promoted Corporal: transferred 
to the Navy May 9, 1864. 

Calvin R. Billington, 18, Dedham, s., promoted Corporal Janu- 
ary I, 1864: died, date unknown, of wounds received June 18, 1864. 



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Isaiah B. Bolton, i8, Orrington, s., promoted Corporal Septem- 
ber I, 1864, and Sergeant November 14, 1864; wounded May 19, 
1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Los Angeles, Cal. 

Samuel M. Bolton, 20, Orrington, s., promoted Corporal and 
Sergeant; died June 25, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Lysander Bragg, real name Lysander Bragg Dunbar, 19, Ban- 
gor, s., died June 21, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

David Braley, 29, Bradford, m., wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Died at Bradford, Me., June 26, 1888. 

Amos Burgess, 25, Caribou, s., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged March 20, 1865. Resides at Conticook, N. H. 

Artemas Butterfield, 19, Bangor, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged March 5, 1865. 

Manley Butterfield, 29, Bangor, m., discharged March 25, 1863. 
Died at Fairfield, Me., March 25, 1885. 

Benjamin F. Buzzell, 21, Bangor, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged July 5, 1865. Died at Fryeburg, Me., January 9, 1896. 

James M. Call, 44, Bradford, m., died May 20, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

Augustus E. Clark, 18, Bradford, s., discharged March 7, 1865. 
Died at Bradford, Me. 

James A. Cole, 18, Glenburn, s., died June 21, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

Charles A. Colomy, 19, Hudson, s., killed June 18, 1864. 

James A. Courtney, 18, Kenduskeag, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged July 22, 1865. 

Alfred M. Cowan, 21, Glenburn, s., promoted Artificer January 
I. 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Rosalvin P. Cowan, 25, Glenburn, s., killed May 19, 1864. 

Henry Curtis, 18, Orneville, s., wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Milo, Me. 

Joel Curtis, 23, Orneville, s., died of disease July 26, 1864. 

Isaac Duff, 28, Bangor, s., promoted Corporal November i^, 
1S64; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died 
at Monticello, Me., April 4, 1889. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY K. 



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Leander F. Elliot, 21, Holden, s., died June 21, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

Sylvander G. Elliot, 21, Holden, s., promoted Corporal, Ser- 
geant September 24, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864: tran6ferred to 
the V. R. C. January 10, 1865, and discharged therefrom June 28, 
1865. 

James B. Erskine, 18, Bradford, s., discharged May 8, 1863. 
Resides at Easton, Me. 

John C. Erskine, 32, Bradford, m., killed May 19, 1864. 

Alphonzo Fletcher, 19, Bradford, s., wounded May 19, and 
June 18, 1864: discharged June 10, 1865. Resides at Bradford, Me. 

John Eraser, 18, Brewer, s, wounded May 19, 1864; killed, 
June 18, 1864. 

Austin Q. French, 18, Bradford, s., killed May 19, 1864. 

George M. Furbish, 34, Bangor, m., wounded July, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

John H. Furbish, ;^;^, pjradford, m., wounded June 16, 1864; 
transferred to the V. R. C. and discharged therefrom July 13, 1865. 
Resides at Bradford, Me. 

Timothy W. George, 21, Orrington, m., died of disease Decem- 
ber T, 1862. 

John Gerald, 27, Canaan, s., died of disease September 9, 1864. 

Samuel Gibson, 27, Bangor, m., wounded May 23, 1864; dis- 
charged February 17, 1865. Died at San Francisco, Cal. 

Freeman D. Gove, 30, Corinth, m., promoted Corporal April 7, 
1863, Sergeant January 30, 1864; wounded June 18, and October 27, 
1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Wolfboro, N. H. 

Reuel Graves, 26, Bangor, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at South Boston, Mass. 

Henry C. Hutchinson, t8, Milford, s., died Junt^ 3, 1864, of 
wounds received May 19. 

Henry W. Hutchinson, 22, Glenburn, s., appointed Wagoner 
October 31, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out June 6, 
1865. Resides at Orono, Me. 

Lorenzo D. Jones, 22, Bangor, s., died of disease September 
17, 1862. 



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Elbridge G. Jordan, 21, Bradford, s., promoted Corporal; trans- 
ferred to the Navy May 9, 1864. Resides at Eau Claire, Wis. 

Elbridge T. Lansill, 19, Bangor, s., appointed Musician January 
I, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Charles R. Lavalley, 18, Bangor, s., appointed Musician January 
I, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Huntington, W. Va. 

Enoch S. Lawrence, 24, Islesboro, m., mustered out June 6, 
1865. Died at Bangor, Me., April 17, 1898. 

Herbert Leadbetter, 18, Glenburn, s., promoted Corporal; 
wounded May 19, 1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

Charles N. Leavitt, 24, Corinth, m., died July 12, 1864, of 
wounds received June 17. 

Charles E. Lovell, 20, Bangor, s., promoted Corporal September 
7, 1864: wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 16, 1865. 

Charles W. Lunt, real name Charles W. Stoddard, 22, Green- 
bush, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at New Sharon, Me. 

Isaac P. F. McCobb, 22, Bradford, s., promoted Corporal Sep- 
tember 28, 1864; discharged June 27, 1865. 

Richard P. McGrath, 18, Bangor, s., wounded June 22, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Portland, Me. 

James McHugh, 24, Bangor, s., accidentally wounded on picket 
October 12, 1863; discharged January 8, 1864. 

Charles H. McKenney, 18, Bangor, s., died May 20, 1864, of 
wounds received May 19. 

George F. Marquis, 20 Bangor, s., promoted Corporal; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

Nathan M. Mills, 18, Milford, s., promoted Sergeant Major 
March 7, 1864, and transferred. See Field and. Staff. 

Jacob Mudgett, 23, Bradford, s., died June 20, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

John H. Nason, 24, Bangor, s., discharged February 9, 1864. 
Died at Fimerick, Me. 

William K. Nason, 21, Kenduskeag, s., promoted Corporal, 
Sergeant July i, 1864; on color guard; wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged September 9, 1864. Resides at Charleston, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY B. 249 

Isaac H. Parsons, 21, Glenburn, s., discharged January 19, 

1864. Resides at Waltham, Mass. 

Charles W. Phipps, 27, Orrington. m., promoted Corporal Sep- 
tember 9, 1863; Sergeant June 25, 1864; mustered out June 6, 

1865. Resides at Dorchester, Mass. 

William W. Pomroy, 28, Glenburn, m., wounded May 19, 1864; 
died June 28, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

James M. Rich, 44, Bangor, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Bangor, Me., March 29, 1896. 

Albert B. Rider, 20, Orrington, s., died of disease November 
13, 1862. 

George B. Robinson, Orrington, s., killed May 19, 18G4. 

Thomas Savage, 21, Bangor, s., died June 25, 1864, of wounds 
received June 17. 

Charles E. Shaw% 18, Brewer, s., died of disease January 4, 1863. 

John S. Smith, 24, Kenduskeag, s., died July 3, 1864, of 
wounds received June 18. 

Charles Speed, 25, Bradford, m., wounded May 23, 1864: dis- 
charged May 22, 1865. Died in Dakota, June 11, 1888. 

John Speed, 27, Bradford, m., wounded May 19, 1864: dis- 
charged June 6, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., December 18, 1900. 

Stephen Strout, 44, Bradford, m., discharged June 3, 1865. 
Died at Bradford, Me. 

Henry L. Thomas, 18, Bradford, s., promoted Corporal, Ser- 
geant September 7, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged 
May II, 1865. Resides at Sangerville, Me. 

John H. Tibbetts, 38, Levant, m., died of disease April 19, 
1863. 

Joseph B. Tibbetts, 25, Bangor, s., promoted Corporal July i, 
1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Augusta, Me., March 
6, 1877. 

Peter Tibdo, t^o, Bradford, m., wounded May 19, 1864: dis- 
charged April 22, 1865. Resides at Dillon City, Montana. 

Albert Treat, 18, Bradford, s., discharged May 8, 1863. 
Resides at Boston, Mass. 



2^0 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY AR'ITLLERY. 

Joseph C. Trickey, 19, Orneville, s., promoted Corporal 
November i, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Charles- 
ton. Me. 

Charles T. Twombly, 22, Levant, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged July 26, 1865. Died at Levant, Me., May 16, 1876. 

Charles H. Tyler, 22, Brewer, s., promoted Corporal; died of 
disease March 15, 1864. 

Marion F. Tyler, 21, Glenburn, s., promoted Corporal May 9, 
1864, Sergeant December 9, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Bradley, Me. 

W'ilniot T. Vickery, 18, Glenburn, s., promoted Corporal Feb- 
ruary I, 1863, Sergeant, 2d Lieut. Co. L January 25, 1864, and 
transferred. See Co. L. 

Lemual B. Whitney, 42, Bangor, m., killed May 19, 1864. 

Benjamin F. Whitticr, 18, Bangor, s., discharged July 6, 1865. 
Died in New York State. 

Charles H. Whittier, 18, Bangor, s., promoted Corporal April 
25, 1863, Sergeant; died June 28, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Joined after November i, 1862. 

William Allen, 21, Bangor, s., mustered March 10, 1863; died 
June 20, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

John Coffin, 21, Winterport, s., mustered May 4, 1863; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

Charles E. Cramp, 18, Newburg, s., mustered February 19, 
1863; <^'ied of disease August 10, 1864. 

Andrew M. Davis, 18, Bangor, s., mustered February 26, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged April 21,, 1865. Died at 
Bangor, Me., December 12, 1901. 

Charles K. Dodge, 18, Bangor, s., mustered February 13, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged December 1, 1864. 

Willard B. Emery, 18, Bangor, s., mustered March 19, 1863; 
promoted Corporal January i, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged June 15, 1865. Resides at Medford, Mass. 

John S. Freese, 18, Orono, s., mustered February 23, 1863; 
deserted May 26, 1863; arrested and confined in Fort Warren. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY B. 25 I 

Edward W. Gorham, i8, Bangor, s., mustered March 30, 1863; 
illed June 18, 1864. 

Benjamin F. Hatch, 29, Fairfield, s., mustered March 2, 1863; 
romoted Corporal; transferred to the Navy May 9, 1S64. 

George Inman, 19, Orono, s., mustered January 3, 1863; 
ounded June 17, 1864; discharged February 8, 1865. Died at 
)rono. Me. 

Benjamin Jackson, 25, Carmel, s., mustered March 5, 1863; 
'Ounded May 19, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. January 10, 
865, and discharged therefrom July 24, 1865. Died at Carmel, 
le., March 25, 1889. 

Charles \V. Johnson, 18, Bangor, s., mustered March 3, 1863; 
ounded May 19, and June 18, 1864; discharged August 5, 1865. 

Henry J. Kimball, 18, Bangor, mustered February 19, 1863 '■< 
lustered out September 11, 1865. 

Thomas Loran, 29, Old Town, m., mustered July 17, 1863; 
'ounded May 19, 1864; discharged September 20, 1865. Died in 
Lhode Island soon after the war. 

Leonard McCoy, 35, Bangor, m., mustered February 27, 1863 ; 
ischarged January 27, 1864. Resides at Vassalboro, Me. 

James McGrath, 28, Bangor, m., mustered February 23, 1863; 
illed May 19, 1864. 

Henry H. Mayville, 21, Bangor, s., mustered February 2;^, 
863 ; deserted March 9, 1863. 

William S. Mayville, ^t^, Bangor, s., mustered February 19, 
863 ; discharged December 24, 1864. 

Warren H. Newell, 23, Fairfield, s., mustered March 5, 1863 ; 
romoted Corporal ; deserted May 15, 1864. Resides at W'hitefieid, 
F. H. 

Thornton M. Pierce, 18, Bangor, s., mustered February 2^, 
863 ; died May 31, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Elias K. Porter, 18, Hampden, s., mustered December 20, 
B63 ; taken prisoner June 16, 1864; died in prison, date unknown. 

William J. Rand, 22, Orrington, s., mustered March 10, 1863 ; 
ansferred to the Navy May 2, 1864. 



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Ezra R. Reed, 21, Clinton, s., mustered March 5, 1863 ; taken 
prisoner June 22, 1864; enlisted into the Rebel army, captured by 
General Stoneman, enlisted into the Regular Army and finally 
discharged. 

George H. Robbins, 38, Bangor, m., mustered March 13, 1863 ; 
promoted Corporal January i, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Bangor, September 9, 
1887. 

James B. Robbins, 23, Augusta, s., mustered March 16, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged March 20, 1865. I^ied at 
Colfax, Cal. 

George W. P. Royal, 18, Orrington, s., mustered March 10, 
1863; discharged May 31, 1865. 

Moses H. Stewart, 31, Wellington, s., mustered April 25, 1863 ; 
died June 25, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Louis M. Thompson, 21, Old Town, s., mustered July 17, 1863 ; 
died of disease March i, 1864. 

John P. Trask, 21, Bangor, s., mustered February 13, 1863, 
mustered out September n, 1865. Died at Hartland, Me. 

Timothy H. Tucker, 36, St. Albans, m., mustered March 24, 
1863 ; discharged in the fall of 1865. Died at Lee, Me., September 
16, 1896. 

William H. Wakefield, 21, Gardiner, s., mustered Alarch 6, 
1863 ; deserted December 3, 1863. 

Joseph O. Ward, 21, Carmel, s., mustered April 9, 1863; died 
September 24, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

George F. Wilson, 22, Hallowell, s., mustered February 12, 
1863 ; deserted March 9, 1863. 

Edward L. Worcester, 18, Bangor, s., mustered February 13, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal, Sergeant July i, 1864, 2d Lieutenant 
November 8, 1864, and ist Lieutenant Co. L February 9, 1865, 
and transferred. See Co. L. 

Frank D. Worcester, 19, Bangor, s., mustered February 13, 
1863 : discharged January 27, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY }^. 253 

Joined after November i, 1S63. 

Benjamin F. Adams, 18, Bangor, s., mustered December i, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September u, 1865. 

Joseph H. Barnes, 32, Dedham, m., mustered December 16, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 17, 1865. Died at 
Holden, Me. 

William Bartlett, 27, Bangor, s., mustered November 28, 1863; 
died July 6, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Harvey A. Blanchard, 18, Kenduskeag, s., mustered November 
17, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 
1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Jeremiah T. Bowden, 27, Orrington, m., mustered December 
30, 1S63; wounded ]\Iay 19, 1864; discharged October 12, 1S65. 

Nehemiah Brawn, 45, Milford, s., mustered November 17, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged September 20, 1864. 
Died at Milford, Me., about 1875. 

Warren M. Brown, 44, Palmyra, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Ferdinand C. Burr, 21, Brewer, s., mustered December 5, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal July i, 1864, Sergeant in 1865 '•> wounded 
June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at 
Brewer, Me. 

John Chapman, real name Charles Kauffman, 2c, alleged 
Rebel deserter, s., mustered October 5, 1864; captured a Rebel 
flag April 6, 1865, which he was allowed to present to the Secre- 
tary of War, receiving a medal and a furlough for 30 days: 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Sebastapol, Cal. 

Jethro W. Clark, 19, Alton, s., mustered November 25, 1863 ; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Charles H. Daggett, 18, Bangor, s., mustered December 5, 
1863; promoted Corporal; died June 30, 1864, of wounds received 
June 18. 

George Delany, 45, Bangor, m., mustered December 10, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; date of discharge uncertain, but he was a 
pensioner. Died at Bangor, Me., October, 1899. 



2r4 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

George Emerson, i8, Bangor, s., mustered November 28, 1863 
promoted Corporal in 1865; wounded June 18, 1864; musterec 
out September it, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

William M. Erskine, 21, Bradford, s., mustered November 21 
1863; wounded May 31, 1864; discharged October 6, 1864. Diec 
at Belfast, Me., April 6, 1896. 

Frederick E. French, 18, Bradford, s., mustered December 9 
1863 : discharged June 23, 1865. Resides at Guilford, Me. 

Andrew E. Gates, 19, Burlington, s., mustered November 24, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864: mustered out September 11, 1865 
Resides at Lincoln, Me. 

George S. Gates, 18, Burlington, s., mustered November 24 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864: mustered out September 11, 1865 
Died in Michigan. 

Herbert T. Gibbs, 18, Glenburn, s., mustered December 5, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

lames A. Giles, 18, Brewer, s., mustered December 30, 1863 ; 
died of disease April 19, 1864. 

Elisha C. Grant, 23, Harrington, s., mustered January 6, 1864 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Cherryfield, Me. 

George W. Grant, 39, Bangor, m., mustered November 21, 1863 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Holden, Me., Novem- 
ber 14, 1874. 

lames A. (irant, 31, Harrington, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Alonzo Gray, 18, Bangor, s., mustered November 23, 1863; 
promoted Corporal July i, 1864; deserted August 5, 1865. 

Jefferson Gray, 31, Exeter, m., mustered December 16, 1863; 
died of disease March 2, 1864. 

Simeon A. Hapworth, 23, Bangor, s., mustered November 23, 
1S63; promoted Corporal July i, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged March 23, 1865. 

Nathan A. Hopkins, 22, Bangor, s., mustered December 14, 
1863; killed May 19, 1864. 

Joseph S. Hutchins, 37, Milford, s., mustered November 14, 
1863; died of disease July 4, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY B. 2^5 

John Keating, t,^, Old Town, s., mustered November 20, 1863 ; 
wounded June 16, and June t8, 1864 ; discharged in 1865. Re- 
sides at Togus, Me. 

William H. Kent, 26, Brewer, m., mustered December 30, 1863 ; 
cut off two fingers splitting wood with hatchet May 16, 1864: trans- 
ferred to the V. R. C. November 27, 1864, and discharged there- 
from September 4, 1865. Died at sea. 

Amaziah Langley, 21, Stetson, s., mustered November 6, 1863 ; 
died May 27, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Charles L. Langley, 21, Stetson, s., mustered November 6, 
1863 ; died of disease March 2, 1864. 

James Langley, 18, Bangor, s., mustered November 16, 1863; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Glen Cove, Minn. 

Joseph R. Langley, 18, Stetson, s., mustered November 6, 
1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 12, 1865. Resides 
at Furgus Falls, Minn. 

Joseph LeBelle, 44, Orono, m., mustered January 5, 1864. 
wounded June 18, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. and discharged 
therefrom September 19, 1865. Died at Old Town, Me., August 
12, 1891. 

Charles H. Lord, real name Charles Hatch, 18, Lewiston, s., 
mustered September 29, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

James Loughery, 31, Newark, N. J., mustered January 12, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Patrick McCue, 35, Bangor m., mustered November 30, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged April 22, 1865. 

P^zra McGray, 26, Bradford, m., mustered December 7, 1863; 
promoted Corporal May 9, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; deserted 
July 23, 1864. Died at Fryeburg, Me., July 22, 1899. 

James McKeen, 44, Fddington, m., mustered December 15, 
1863 ; wounded in fall of 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Died February, 1887. 

Alphonzo Miller, 18, J^urlington, s., mustered November 19, 
1863 ; died June 25, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

David R. Mills, 18, Milford, s., mustered December 29, 1863; 
died July 9, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 



2r6 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Solomon Morrison, 45, Brewer, m., mustered January 2, 1864; 
discharged March 8, 1864. Died at Brewer, Me., October 30, 
1890. 

Hoyt R. Parks, 18, Dedham, s., mustered December 16, 1863 ; 
died July 25, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Franklin S. Playze, 21, Greenbush, s., mustered November 16, 
1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

Henry W. Rider, 25, Bradford, s., mustered December 9, 1863 ; 
died May 22, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Henry A. Severance, 33, Orrington, m., mustered December 
31, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged April 10, 1865. 

Charles Stade, 36, New York State, s., muste_red December 14, 
1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 14, 1865. 

Charles H. Stewart, 31, New York State, s., mustered Novem- 
ber 28, 1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged May 19, 1865. 
Resides at Togus, Me. 

William W. Tibbetts, 18, Clifton, s., mustered December 9, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. and 
discharged therefrom September 11, 1865. Resides at Otis, Me. 

Russell Trundy, 21, Surry, s., mustered December 29, 1863; 
wounded on picket January 12, 1864, by a fragment of shell from a 
gun fired in practice at Fort Sumner; discharged February i, 1864. 
Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Leander Vickery, 35, Brewer, m., mustered July 28, 1864; 
killed October 27, 1864. 

William White, real name William White Freeman, 21, Charles- 
town, Mass., s., mustered December 18, 1863 ; killed June 18, 1864. 

William H. Whitney, 25, Richmond, m., mustered December 
31, 1863; promoted Corporal, Sergeant August i, 1865; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Richmond, Me. 

John A. Whittier, 18, Vienna, s., mustered December 24, 1863; 
wounded June 22, 1864; discharged December 16, 1864. 

Joined after Nove.mher i, 1864. 
Com7?iissioncd Officers. 
Capt. Isaac S. Faunce, Lewiston, joined by transfer from the 
I 7th Mnine Tnfnntrv Tiino 7. tSTjC : mustered out Sentember t t. t86c:. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY H. 257 

I St Lieut. Benjamin C. Frost, Bangor, joined by transfer from 
Co. iVr December 13, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1S65. 
Died at Marshall, Minn. 

I St Lieut. Cassius C. Roberts, Stockton, joined by transfer 
from Co. L April 25, 1865; breveted Captain; mustered out 
September 11, 1865. Resides at Chicago, 111. 

2d Lieut. Daniel J. Chandler, Lewiston, joined by transfer from 
the 17th Maine Infantry June 3, 1865; mustered out September 11, 
1865. 

Enlisted Afe?i. 

Joseph R. Atkins, 42, Westbrook, s., mustered October 18, 
1864; discharged May 31, 1865. 

Arthur Betts, real name Albert K. Scott, 27,, Providence, R. L, 
s., mustered October 17, 1864; promoted Corporal and Sergeant in 
1865 ; mustered out September i r, 1865. 

William Carter, 25, New Brunswick Province, s., mustered 
December 12, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1863. 

Albert Clement, 20, Kenduskeag, s., mustered October 4, 1864; 
wounded April 6, 1865 ; discharged June 8, 1865. Died at Ken- 
duskeag, Me., July 18, 1873. 

John Coleman, real name John Calnan, 21, Boston, Mass., m., 
mustered October 17, 1864; mustered out September n, 1865. 

Thomas Dana, 21, Old Town, s., mustered December 26, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1^6^. Resides at Old Town, Me. 

James S. Holbrook, 18, Dorchester, Mass., s., mustered Octo- 
ber I, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865, 

Joseph Jordan, 25, Webster, m., mustered September 15, 1864; 
wounded March 25, 1865 ; discharged June 8, 1865. Resides at 
Sabattus, Me. 

Thomas Louis, 22, Old Town, m., mustered December 29, 
1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Michael ]McGuinness, real name Michael Harney, 26, Ireland, 
s., mustered October 13, 1864: mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at Jamaica Plain, Mass. 

Francis McKenna, 20, Bathurst, N. B., s., mustered October 
17, 1864; wounded April 6, 1865: mustered out September 11, 
1865. Died at Bathurst, N. B., April 13, 1874. 



2 1-8 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Frank McKierman, 24, Providence, R. I., mustered October 17, 
1864: died of disease June 27, 1865. 

Supple Orson, 24, Old Town, m., mustered December 29, 1864; 
discharged September 20, 1865. Died at Veazie, Me., May 17, 1893. 

Thomas Plumador, 45, Waterville, mustered October i, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

John Richardson, 26, Biddeford, m., mustered October 17, 
1864; discharged June 8, 1865. 

Albert Smith, 22, Kenduskeag, s., mustered October 7, 1864; 
discharged June 13, 1865. Died at Kenduskeag, Me. 

John Tomar, 18, Lincoln, s., mustered January 2, 1865 ; dis- 
charged June 2, 1865. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY C. 



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COMPANY C. 

As Mustered August 21, 186: 





('APT. fJEX.TAMIX T. ATHERTOX, 



1st Lt. (iKoKCK W. (ii; ANT. 



Captain BENJAMIN T. ATHERTON 

Joined as Sergeant from Mount Desert. An excellent Orderly Sergeant, 
a good Lieutenant, and efficient Captain. He did good service in all the 
engagements of his Regiment. 

First Lieutenant GEORGE \V. GRANT. 

We called him " Cumberland," for he had been in the Navy and went 
down in that ship, fighting till she sank. Brave, hardy hero. He received 
a fatal wound leading his men to victory at Spottsylvania, ISLay 19, 1864. 




First Lieutenant 
CARLETON M. ALSTIN 

Joined as Corporal, promoted to Ser- 
geant, and on account of efficiency and 
worth was commissioned twice. He bore 
his part bravely in all the battles to June 
i8th, where he was wounded, returning 
in time to get a second wound October 
27th, at Boydton Road, for which he was 
discharged. 



1ST Lt. CARLETOX :M. AU8TIX. 



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1ST lt. hezekl\h h. lane. 



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1ST Lt. JAMES F. KOBINSOX. 



First Lieutenant HEZEKIAH H. LANE. 
See Record. 

First Lieutenant JAMES F. ROBINSON. 
See Record. 



Commissioned Officers. 

Capt. Zemro A. Smith, 25, Hodgdon, m., wounded May 19, 
1864; promoted AEajor September 17, 1864, and transferred. See 
Field and Staff. 

I St Lieut. William T. Parker, 23, Ellsworth, m., promoted Capt. 
Co. L January 25, 1864, and transferred. See Co. L. 

2d Lieut. George W. Grant, 23, Ellsworth,, s., promoted ist 
J^ieut. March 9, 1864 ; died May 28. 1864 ,of wounds received May 19. 

Sergeants. 

Benjamin T. Atherton, 31, Mount I3esert, m., promoted 2d 
Lieut. January 18, 1864, ist Lieut. June 21, 1864, and Capt. Decem- 
ber 13, 1864: mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Mount 
Desert, Me., May 4, 1894. 

Elliot J. Salsbury, 19, Trenton, s., died June i, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY C. 26 1 

Edward S. Foster, 29, Trenton, m., promoted 2d Lieut. March 9, 
1864; died July 14, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

William S. Carter, 36, Surry, m., promoted ist Lieut, in U. S. 
Colored Troops March 16, 1863, and transferred. Died at Baton 
Rouge, La., in 1863 or 1864. 

William C. Moore, 30, Brooklin, m., promoted 2d Lieut, in LT. 
S. Colored Troops March 16, 1863, and transferred. Resides at 
Southwest Harbor, Me. 

Corporals. 

Milton S. Beckwith, 21, Ellsworth, s., promoted Sergeant; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

John G. Remick, 28, Otis, m., taken prisoner June 22, 1864; 
exchanged January i, 1865; discharged May 4, 1865. Died at 
Ellsworth, Me., August 18, 1897. 

Carleton M. Austin, 26, Trenton, s., promoted Sergeant. 2d 
Lieut. July 27, 1864, ist Lieut. December 13, 1864, not mus- 
tered; wounded June 18, and October 27, 1864; discharged Jan- 
uary I, 1865. 

James M. Smith, 31, Ellsworth, m.. Color Bearer, promoted 
Sergeant March 12, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out 
June 6, 1865. 

George Kittridge, 21, Eden, s., killed June 18, 1864. 

Robert Grindle, 44, Surry, m., leg injured by a rolling log while 
building breastworks June 10, 1864; discharged April 18, 1865. 
Died at Augusta, Me., January 14, 1899. 

Edward N. Beal, 20, Ellsworth, s., promoted Sergeant; trans- 
ferred to the Navy April 25, 1864. Died at Lynn, Mass. 

Hervey L. Hastings, 19, Ellsworth, s., promoted Sergeant 
January i, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 20, 
1865. Resides at Anderson, Cal. 

Musician. 

Charles W. Beal, 19, Ellsworth, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 



262 THK FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Wagoner, 

John Lynch, 35, Ellsworth, m., died November 28, 1864, of 
wounds received May 19. 

F?'ivates. 

Charles W. Allen, 21, Hampden, s., died August i, 1864, of 
wounds received June 18. 

Alanson Bennett, 34, Ellsworth, m., taken prisoner June 22, 
1864; died in prison August 23, 1864, of wounds received June 22. 

Samuel Brann, 37, Ellsworth, m., died of disease September 7, 
1863. 

Benjamin S. Brooks, 42, Ellsworth, m., promoted Corporal Jan- 
uary I, 1864; discharged June 21, 1865. Died soon after the war. 

Sewall A. Bunker, 21, Eden, s., taken prisoner June 22, 1864; 
died in prison August 15, 1864. 

Eben F. Burns, 19, Eden, s., promoted Corporal January i, 
1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 24, 1865. Resides 
at Bar Harbor, Me. 

George W. Burns, 21, Eden, s., killed May 19, 1864. 

William S. Butler, 22, Eastbrook, s., wounded June 18, 1864; 
died of disease December 24, 1864. 

James Cain, 27, Ellsworth, m., died June 21, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

Thomas Cain, t^-^, Surry, m., died of disease October 17, 1862. 

Benjamin S. Campbell, 23, Eden, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged January 3, 1865. Resides at Islesford, Me. 

William B. Campbell, 19, Eden, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged February 16, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Henry A. Carter, 18, Eden, s., wounded June 18, 1864: dis- 
charged July 17, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Levi Chapman, 27, Waltham, m., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged :\Iay 10, 1865. Resides at Bucksport, Me. 

Charles T. Clare, 39, Mariaville, m., killed June 18, 1864. 

Cyrus A. Cook, 25, Ellsworth, s., transferred to the Navy April 
25, 1864. I^ied at East Bluehill, Me., July 12, 1901. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY C. 263 

Shepherd Cousins, 21, Trenton, s., transferred to the Navy 
April 25, 1864. Resides at Lamoine, Me. 

John Douglass, 44, Ellsworth, m., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged July 22, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., February 19, 1886. 

John H. Douglass, 21, Eden, m., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged January 10, 1865. Resides at Marlboro, Hancock Co., Me. 

Maurice Downey, 3^, Ellsworth, m., wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

William F. Emerson, 20, Ellsworth, s., promoted Corporal May 
I, 1864, Sergeant 1864, Commissary Sergeant January i, 1865; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

John L. Emery, 19, Eden, s., wounded May 19, 1864, and April 
6, 1865; discharged June 15, 1865. 

Harrison Fogg, 39, Mt. Desert, m., killed May 19, 1864. 

William H. Fox, t^^, Ellsworth, m., promoted Corporal March 
15, 1863, Sergeant 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out 
June 6, 1865. Died at Amery, Wis., in 1898. 

Isaiah Garland, 22, Ellsworth, s., died August 16, 1864, of 
wounds received June 18. 

Reuben Gragg, Jr., 35, Ellsworth, m., died September 30, 1864, 
of wounds received June 18. 

Ezra P. Gray, 40, Ellsworth, m., wounded May 19, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. 

Stillman Gray, 27, Trenton, s., promoted Corporal July i, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at 
Lamoine, Me., about 1869. 

Cushman E. Harding, 22, Mariaville, s., promoted Corporal 
January i, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged January 16, 
1865. Died at Sedgwick, Me., November 15, 1897. 

Jeremiah Harrington, 39, Ellsworth, m., wounded May 19, 1864, 
and March 25, 1865 ; discharged July 7, 1865. Resides at Ells- 
worth, Me. 

Sewall F. Haskell, 25, Ellsworth, m., promoted Artificer; 
wounded May 19, and October 27, 1864; discharged June 28, 1865. 
Resides at Brewer, Me. 



264 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Edmund Higgins, ;^^, Trenton, s., promoted Corporal May i, 
1864; discharged May 10, 1865. 

John Higgins, iS, Eden, s., promoted Corporal March i, 1865; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Bar Harbor, Me. 

John P. Higgins, 18, Trenton, s., killed May 19, 1864. 

Richard Higgins, 35, Trenton, m., wounded ]\Iay 19, 1864; 
discharged May i, 1865. 

Arthur P. Hinkley, 18, Ellsworth, s., promoted Corporal; died 
August 12, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Andrew J. HoUis, 23, Mariaville, m,, disappeared from the 
Company in Washington March 20, 1864, and never since heard 
from. 

Joshua T. Jellison, 31, Ellsworth, m., mustered out June 6, 
1865. Resides at Togus, Me. Tallest man in the Regiment. 

Henry C. Jordan, 18, Ellsworth, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Togus, Me. 

Walter Jordan, 31, Ellsworth, m., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged January 10, 1865. 

Cyrus F. King, 18, Trenton, s., died of disease November 6, 1862. 

Luther Kingman, 43, Waltham, s., died November 18, 1864, of 
wounds received October 27. 

Henry H. McFarland, 24, Trenton, s., discharged at Augusta, 
never left Maine. 

Wellington McFarland, 19, Ellsworth, s., appointed Musician 
January i, 1864, mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Bar Har- 
bor, Me. 

Llewellyn McGown, 22, Ellsworth, s.. wounded May 19, 1864; 
deserted October 31, 1864. 

lienjamin Maddocks, 31, Ellsworth, m., promoted Sergeant July 
I, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Nicolin, Me. 

Edwin G. Marcyes, 31, Eden, m., killed May 19, 1864. 

Timothy M. Mason, 18, Mt. Desert, s., promoted Corporal; 
transferred to the Navy April 25, 1864. Resides at Mt. Desert, Me. 

Joshua C. Mayo, 26, Tremont, m., deserted March 25, 1863. 
Died at Rockland in 1901. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY C. 265 

William L. Miles, 26, Mariaville, s., wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged March 21, 1865. Resides at North Hancock, Me. 

Nahum Murch, 21, Ellsworth, s., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged January 19, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

John Murphy, 20. EUsw^orth, s., wounded May 19, 1864: mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Midland, Mich. 

James M. Parker, 21, Mt. Desert, s., promoted Artificer in 1864; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

John H. Peach, 22, Eden, s., died of disease November 26, 1862. 

Mark T. Richardson, 19, Mt. Desert, s., promoted Corporal, 
Sergeant March 12, 1864, and ist Sergeant May 16, 1865: wounded 
May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1S65. Died at Mt. Desert, 
Me., June 4, 1892. 

John A. Rodick, 32, Mt. Desert, s., wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged June 10, 1865. Resides at Bar Harbor, Me. 

Arthur Royal, 19, Ellsworth, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Ellsworth, Me., May, 1902. 

Luther M. Royal, 18, Ellsworth, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged March 23, 1865. Resides at Somerset, Wis. 

Arthur L. Salsbury, 18, Eden, s., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged July, 1865. Died at Eden, Me., July 24, 1867. 

Warren H. Salsbury, 18, El.lsworth, s., transferred to Y. R. C. 
November 18, 1863, and discharged therefrom July 14, 1865. Re- 
sides at San Francisco, Cal. 

Abraham Sargent, Jr., 20, Ellsworth, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Samuel T. Savage, 21, Mt. Desert, m., promoted Corporal, Ser- 
geant March 15, 1863, and ist Sergeant January i, 1864: commis- 
sioned 2d Lt. June 21, 1864, not mustered ; died of disease Febru- 
ary 18, 1865. 

John J. Scott, 29, Ellsworth, m., promoted Corporal May i, 
1864 ; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged January 13, 1865. Re- 
sides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Asa Smith, 43, Ellsworth, m., wounded June 18. 1864; dis- 
charged February 11, 1865. Died at Ellsworth, Me., October 21, 
1895. 



266 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

John A. Smith, 24, Mt. Desert, s., wounded June 18, 1864; 
transferred to the V. R. C. December 19, 1864, and discharged there- 
from June 26, 1865. Resides at Wolfboro, N. H. 

Lemuel Smith, 41, Ellsworth, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Lemuel A. Smith, 18, Ellsworth, s., died August i, 1864 of 
wounds received June 18. 

Stillman Smith, 18, Mt. Desert, s., died June 20, 1864, of wounds 
received June 17. 

William Smith, 20, Ellsworth, s., wounded May 19, and June 
18, 1864; promoted Corporal March i, 1865; mustered out June 
6, 1865. 

Edmund Springer, 18, Trenton, s., died of disease November 
22, 1862. 

William P. Squire, ^S, Ellsworth, m., promoted Corporal; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at 
Santa Monica, Cal., Soldiers' Home. 

Willis C. Stanley, 19, Otis, s., discharged December 2, 1862. 
Resides at Brewer, Me. 

Isaac C. Staples, 25, Eden, s., killed May 19, 1864. 

Alexander Starkie, 21, Ellsworth, m., mustered out June 6, 
1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

James M. Stratton, 22, Eastbrook, s., taken prisoner June 22, 
1864; died in prison August 20, 1864. 

Daniel O. Sullivan, 23, Ellsworth, m., killed June 18, 1864. 

James E. Tinker, 19, Trenton, s., died of disease September 
3, 1863. 

George H. Treworgy, 26, Ellsworth, m., died of disease Octo- 
ber 2, 1862. 

Benjamin Varnum, 44, Surry, m., discharged July i, 1863. 
Died July 20, 188 1. 

Elijah H. Wasgatt, 34, Mt. Desert, m., killed May 19, 1864. 
Stephanus Wormwood, 28, Ellsworth, s., died on the battle- 
field of exhaustion April 6, 1865. 



records of company c. 267 

Joined After November i, 1862. 
Cofumissioned Officers. 

I St Lieut. Horatio Pitcher, Bangor, joined by transfer from the 
Field and Staff January i, 1863 ; Acting Regimental Quartermaster 
until May i, 1864, on detached service at Albany, N. Y., till mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Aurelia, Iowa. 

Enlisted Men. 

James F. Aldrich, 32, Bangor, s., mustered April 25, 1863; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died October 18, 1882. 

Joseph S. Bonzey, 18, Surry, s., mustered April i, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 5, 1865. Resides at 
Bucksport, Me. 

George A. Bunker, 18, Eden, s., mustered April 14, 1863; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Eden, Me. 

Edward Butler, 30, Ellsworth, m., mustered February 27, 1863; 
died of disease September 4, 1864. 

Ezra N. Curtis, 20, Surry, s., mustered April 11, 1863 ; wounded 
June 4, 1864; discharged June 12, 1865. 

Sidney S. Eldridge, 21, Ellsworth, s., mustered April 22, 1863; 
died May 21, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

William L. Eldridge, 19, P^llsworth, s., mustered May 23, 1863 ; 
wounded March 25, 1865 ; discharged September 20, 1865. Re- 
sides at Bangor Me. 

Edward E. Emery, 18, Eden, s., mustered March 28, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Eben W. Foster, 26, Bangor, s., mustered February 5, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Benjamin Frazier, 23, Otis, s., mustered July 22, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal January i, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged April 10, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

James M. Googins, 19, Ellsworth, s., mustered April 22, 1863; 
died of disease November 26, 1863. 

George G. Henries, real name George H. Gerry, 21, Spring- 
field, s., mustered March 30, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Togus, Me. 



268 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Charles W. Jellison, 20, Ellsworth, s., mustered April i, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged December 3, 1864. Resides 
at Ellsworth, Me. 

Michael Lee, 37, Ellsworth, s., mustered June 12, 1863; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

John M. Liscomb, 18, Eden, s., mustered March 28, 1863; died 
August 4, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Henry L. Lunt, 25, Ellsworth, m., wounded June 18, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Ellsworth, Me., Decem- 
ber, 23, 1897. 

William T. Lunt, 20, Ellsworth, s., mustered February 27, 1863 ; 
died June 23, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Algernon Morgan, 26, Surry, s., mustered March 26, 1863; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

William B. Remick, 22, Otis, s., mustered April 29, 1863; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Otis, Me. 

Bloomfield T. Richardson, 22, Mt. Desert, s., mustered March 
26,1863; wounded May 31, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. 
August 3, 1864, and discharged therefrom September 18, 1865. 
Resides at Mt. Desert, Me. 

Benjamin Rodick, 30, Eden, s., mustered April 11, 1863 ; died 
of disease January i, 1864. 

Eben H. Saddler, 18, Ellsworth, s., mustered Eebruary 27, 
1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

John B. Saddler, 20, Ellsworth, s., mustered February 27, 1863 ; 
died of disease April 4, 1864. 

Frank J. Sargent, 25, Ellsworth, s., mus-tered May 8, 1863; 
promoted Corporal, Sergeant February 11, 1864; wounded June 
18, and October 27, 1864; promoted 2d Lieut. Co. L April 25, 1865, 
and transferred. See Co. L. 

William P. Sawyer, 36, Tremont, m., mustered March 13, 1863 ; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Tremont, Me., June 8, 
1899. 

Henry G. Smith, t,^, Mt. Vernon, m., mustered April i, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged January 20, 1865. Resides at 
Readfield, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY C. 269 

William H, U. Staten, i8, Surry, s., mustered March 26, 1863; 
promoted Corporal November i, 1864, and Sergeant May i, 1865 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Alonzo Thompson, 26, Bangor, s., mustered INIarch 31, 1863; 
deserted June 10, 1864. 

Ambrose H. Wasgatt, 21, Eden, s., mustered April 11, 1863. 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides 
at Winter Harbor, Me. 

Joined after November i, 1863. 

Wellington Beal, 18, Ellsworth, s., mustered ]3ecember 15, 
1863 ; died of disease July 14, 1864. 

Smith C. Beverly, 26, Ellsworth, m., mustered December 15, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Francis A. Blanchard, 22, Springfield, s., mustered November 
25, 1863; promoted Corporal June i, 1865; w^ounded May 19, 
1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

James G. Bowden, 42, Ellsworth, m., mustered December 19, 
1863; discharged June 5, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Sylvester Bowden, 45, Ellsworth, m., mustered December 15, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Nathan Brazier, 42, Orono, m., mustered January i, 1864; 
died July 31, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

John Brick, 2>"i Cherryfield, m,, mustered December 4, 1863 ; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Saginaw, Mich. 

Edwin G. Brimmer, 31, Corinth, m., mustered November 30, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged May 3, 1865. Resides 
at Mariaville, Me. 

William H. Campbell, 22, Buffalo, N. Y., mustered December 
4, 1863 ; killed May 19, 1864. 

Daniel Cilifford, 65, Lee, m., mustered December 2, 1863 ; 
discharged February 15, 1864. Died at Lee, Me., January 6, 1866. 

Benson Cunningham, 35, Ellsworth, m., mustered June 13, 
1863 ; died of disease June 18, 1864. 



2yo THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Ebenezer Elvvell, 58, Brooks, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
discharged January 14, 1865. 

James S. Emerson, 30, Chelsea, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
died June 30, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Manley p:ugene, 21, Belfast, s., mustered September 7, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

John M. Fogg, 44, Otis, m., mustered December i, 1863 ; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died 
in 1893. 

Willard O. Fogg, 18, Otis, s., mustered December i, 1863 ; 
wounded October 18, 1864; discharged June 3, 1865. Resides at 
Hull's Cove, Hancock Co., Me. 

Frederick Foss, 18, Weston, s., mustered September 6, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1S65. 

Alden H. Frazier, 28, Otis, m., mustered December 15, 1863 ; 
wounded May 18, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. January 10, 
1865, and discharged therefrom July 24, 1865. Died in 1902. 

Dudley C. Frazier, 34, Mariaville, m., mustered December 17, 
1863 ; discharged March 7, 1864. Resides at Togus, Me. 

John H. Frazier, 18, Otis, s., mustered December i, 1863 ; 
died of disease March 20, 1864. 

George D. Garland, 19, Ellsworth, s., mustered December 15, 
1863 ; discharged May 15, 1865. Resides at Lakewood, Me. 

Newell Garland, 44, Otis, m., mustered December 16,1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged December 3, 1864. 

Washburn D. Gray, 18, Ellsworth, s., mustered December 26, 
1863 ; died of disease September 27, 1864. 

James H. Grover, 18, Burnham, s., mustered December 15, 
1863 ; wounded May 19, 1864; killed October 2, 1864. 

Edward J. Howard, 18, Brewer, s., mustered December 7, 
1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Daniel Jellison, 43, Waltham, m., mustered September 8, 1864; 
died October 30, 1864, of wounds received October 24. 

Oscar Kimball, 28, Hiram, m., mustered December 9, 1863; 
wounded June 22, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. March 4, 1865, 



RECORDS OF COMPANY C. 2J I 

and discharged therefrom September i8, 1865. Died at Portland, 
Me., in 1894. 

Charles W. Kincaid, 18, Ellsworth, s., mustered December 16, 
1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Ellsworth, Me., 
April 13, 1901. 

Erancis G. Knowlton, 18, Winterport, s., mustered December 
10, 1863 ; died June i, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

William Lloyd, 23, Hodgdon, s., mustered December 14, 1863 ; 
died of disease February 27, 1864. 

Charles H. Long, 18, Mariaville, s., mustered December i, 
1863 ; died July 15, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

David J. Lyman, 19, Waltham, s., mustered September 8, 
1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Joseph Lyman, 29, Waltham, m., mustered September 8, 1864; 
discharged May 19, 1865. Resides at Brewer, Me. 

Peter McCabe, 42, Ellsworth, s., mustered December 4, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; enlisted into the Navy July 31, 1864, under 
the name of John Mooney ; discharged in 1865. I^ied at Bucks- 
port, Me., January, 1901. 

Thomas Matthews, 38, Bangor, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
eyes injured in firing off guards' rifles; discharged March 11, 1864; 
Died at Guilford, Me. 

Franklin Morrill, 20, Hiram, s., mustered December 9, 1863 ; 
killed June 16, 1864. 

George Morrill, 18, Hiram, s., mustered December 9, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Christopher Miinch, 18, Bangor, mustered November 23, 1863 ; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Joseph W. Nason, ^S, Ellsworth, m., mustered January 11, 
1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

Owen O'Neill, 22, Cherryfield, mustered August 27, 1864; 
wounded and taken prisoner October 27, 1864; paroled February 
18, 1865. Resides at Pleasant Ridge, N. B. 

James F. Osgood, 18, Hiram, s., mustered December 9, 1863; 
accidentally wounded on guard in March, 1864; wounded April 6, 
1865 ; discharged June 19, 1865. Resides at Kezar Falls, Me. 



272 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

William H. Porter, 42, Eddington, m., mustered December 3, 
1863 ; died of disease February 11, 1864. 

David Pottle, 18, Pittston, s., mustered December 2, 1863: 
wounded June iS, 1864 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Moses Pottle, 44, Pittston, m., mustered December 7, 1863 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Pittston, Me., June 29 
1893. 

James H, Roberts, 18, Standish, s., mustered December 11 
1863 ; died of disease March 10, 1864. 

Andrew J. Ross, 21, Belfast, s., mustered September 8, 1864 
died of disease November 4, 1864. 

John Royal, 43, Ellsworth, m., mustered December 17, 1863 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged July 13, 1865. Died at Togus 
Me., June 23, 1898. 

James Ryan, 58, Burnham, m., mustered December 15, 1863 
discharged February 18, 1864. 

James Z. Ryan, 39, Ellsworth, m., mustered December 16 
1863 ; discharged January 13, 1865. Died at Ellsworth, Me. 
December 30, 1865, 

Augustus J. Sargent, 25, Ellsworth, m., mustered December 16, 
1863 ; discharged June 3, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Calvin J. Sargent, 18, Ellsworth, s., mustered August 8, 1864 
wounded April 6, 1865 ; discharged May 25, 1865. Resides at 
Bangor, Me. 

Edwin F. Smith, 21, Orrington, s., mustered December 5, 
1863: wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June i, 1865. Died at 
Hampden, Me. 

(ieorge A. Smith, 21, Hodgdon, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

William W. Smith, 37, Orrington, m., mustered December 4, 
1863; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Orrington, Me., 
November iC, 1871. 

Benjamin Sprague, 18, Belfast, s., mustered September 7, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died, at Presque Isle, Me., 
February 14, 1894. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY C 273 

William H. Stanley, 20, Surry, s; mustered Jan. 6, 1864; pro- 
moted Coporal May 16, 1865 ; wounded May 19, 1864, and Jan. 2^ 
1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Brooklin, Maine. 

Wellington Stratton, 23, Franklin, s ; mustered Jan. 3, 1864; 
wounded May 19, and June 18, 1864; discharged June 29, 1865. 
Resides at Vinalhaven, Maine. 

James R. Sutherland, 20, Franklin, s; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged May ri, 1865. Died at Rollag, 
Clay County, Minn. Feb. 27, 1900. 

Josiah Towle, 35, Enfield, m ; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; mustered out 
Sept. II, 1865. 

Nelson Turney, 25, Hodgdon, s; mustered Dec. 14, 1863 ; died of 
disease March 12, 1864. 

James Williams, 23, Portland, m ; mustered Dec. 3, 1863; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

Joshua Wotton, 45, Enfield, m; mustered Jan. 4, 1864; discharged 
June 13, 1865. Died at Togus, Me., Dec. 25, 1882. 

Joined after Nov. i, 1864. 
Commissioned Officers. 

First Lieut. Hezekiah H. Lane, Bangor, joined by transfer from 
Company D Feb. 9, 1865 ; discharged Aug. 24, 1865. Died at Bangor, 
Me., June 10, 1882. 

First Lieut. James F. Robinson. Bangor, joined by transfer from 
Company D Aug. 15, 1865 ; was Ordnance Officer at Brigade Head- 
quarters summer of 1865; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

Second Lieut. Charles J. House, Lee, joined by transfer from Com- 
pany E Feb. 9, 1865 ; was Pioneer Officer at Brigade Headquarters 
from April 25 to June 3, 1865 ; promoted First Lieutenant Company G 
April 25, 1865, and transferred. See Company G. 

Enlisted Men. 

Sergeant George A. York, Hermon, joined by transfer from Com- 
pany F June 6, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 



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COMPANY D. 

As Mustered Aug. 21, 1862. 



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Capt. FREDERIC E. SHAW. 

Brevet-Major FREDERIC E. SHAW. 

Joined as original First Lieutenant and became captain on promotion 
of Captain Crossman to major. A cultivated gentleman, of refined taste 
and manner; a just and discreet officer. Was in all the battles of 
the regiment and did excellent service. His material for the history 
of our regimtnt has aided much in the preparation of this work. 






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Cai't. A. J. KNOWLES. Lieut. HENRY E. SELLERS. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY D. 



Captain ABIATHER J. KNOWLES. 



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An officer of conspicuous ability. He had done excellent service 
in Company K as Lieutenant. Had been on special duty at Brigade 
Headquarters in charge of Pioneers, and came to command this Com- 
pany on account of his capacity as an officer. 

First Lieutenant HENRY E. SELLERS. 

Joined as First or Orderly Sergeant, a position which developed the 
soldierly qualities that made Lieutenant Sellers so useful to his Com- 
pany and the Regiment. He has been Secretary of the Regimental 
Association for many years, and died in Searsport, Aug. 29, 1902, iit 
the home of his son, Dr. H. H. Sellers. 

First Lieutenant JAMES A. DOLE. 

^ Joined Company F as Corporal, was 
promoted to Sergeant and Orderly Ser- 
geant for his recognized abiUty to fill 
this difficult position. His services as 
Orderly and Lieutenant in Company F 
marked him as one of the best among 
our many able and popular young offi- 
cers. In action he was brave, cool and 
discreet. Careful to guard his men from 
useless waste of life, he would lead them 
into the fiercest of the fray when the 
supreme moment came. He accom- 
panied the writer in an attempt to rescue 
some wounded comrades in the early 

morning of June 19 after the fatal charge. His courage could never be 
questioned afterwards. He has been prominent as merchant in Ban- 
gor and banker in California since the war. 

First Lieutenant WILLIAM A. BECKFORD. 

Joined as Sergeant. His recognized ability brought him promotion. 
He was with his Company in all the engagements till wounded, June 
18, 1864. He was a reliable soldier and good officer. 




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Lieut. WM. A. BECKFORD. 



Lieut. A. B. MARSTON. 



Second Lieutenant THOMAS S. DRUMMOND. 

Joined as Corporal and by reason of excellence as a soldier was 
made Sergeant, First Sergeant and Second Lieutenant. He was killed 
in the charge of June 18. Of all the comrades who fell there, none 
were more regretted than Lieutenant Drummond. 



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Lieut. THOS. S. DRUMMOND. 



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Lieut. STILLMAN S. WOODCOCK. 



Second Lieutenant STILLMAN S. WOODCOCK. 

Lieutenant Woodcock was the original Wagoner of Company D, but 
lie soon became convinced that a place in the ranks would be more 



RECORDS OF COMPANY D. 



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congenial to him than the position of mule driver. He was promoted 
to Corporal and Sergeant, and was put in charge of the regimental 
colors. For conspicuous bravery in action, at Sailors Creek, he was 
promoted to Lieutenant. 

Conimissio7ied OJice?'s. 

Captain Christopher V. Crossman, 40, Bangor, m; promoted Major 
Jan. 30, 1864 and transferred. See Field and Staff. 

First Lieut. Frederic E. Shaw, 37, Bangor, m ; promoted Captain 
Feb. 18, 1864; breveted Major ; discharged May 15, 1865. Died at 
Bangor, Me., April 13, 1885. 

Second Lieut. Arlington B. Marston, 28, Bangor, m; resigned Oct. 
29, 1862. Died at Bangor, Me., May 6, 1897. 

Sergea?its. 

Henry E. Sellers, 29, Bangor, m ; promoted Second Lieutenant Nov. 
18, 1862, First Lieutenant Jan. 18, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged Nov. 23, 1864. Died at Searsport, Me., Aug. 29, 1902. 

Jonathan C. Lane, 36, Bangor, m; wounded June 18, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., Jan. 27, 1884. 

John S. Pearson, 29, Bangor, m; discharged June 5, 1865. Died 
at Bangor, Me., Jan. 3, 1873. 

William A. Beckford, 32, Bangor, m; promoted Second Lieutenant 
Jan. 18, 1864, First Lieutenant Oct. 17, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged Aug. 24, 1865. 

Albert Haskell, 29, Bangor, m ; promoted First Sergeant Jan. 16, 
1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at 
Bangor, Me., Feb. 19, 1894. 

Corporals. 

Frank W. Webster, 25, Bangor, s; promoted to Captain in U. S. 
Colored Troops Aug. 13, 1863 ^"cl transferred. 

George Rollins, 31, Bangor, s; promoted First Sergeant Nov. 23, 
1862, Second Lieutenant Jan. 18, 1864, First Lieutenant Feb. 18, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged Sept. 3, 1864. Resides at 
Kenduskeag, Me. 

Timothy Cole, 35, Bangor, m ; discharged May 27, 1865. Died at 
Bangor, Me., May 7, 1883. 



278 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

William A. Howe, 24, Eddington, s; promoted Sergeant Jan. i, 

1864, First Sergeant Feb. 23, 1864 ; commissioned Second Lieutenant 
July 27, 1864, not mustered; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged in 

1865. Resides at Merrimac, Mass. 

Albert G. Buck, 39, Robbinston, s; promoted Sergeant Jan. 23, 
1864; discharged June 27, 1865. Died at Robbinston, Me , Jan. 4, 

1901. 

John Jackson, 35, Bangor, m; died June 25, 1864 of wounds 
received June 18. 

Lorenzo D. Hoyt, real name Charles L. Howard, 28, Stetson, m ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; deserted March 28, 1865. 

Thomas S. Drummond, 22, Bangor, s; promoted Sergeant Jan. i, 
1864, First Sergeant Jan. 23, 1864, Second Lieutenant Feb. 18, 
1864; killed June t8, 1864. 

Musician. 

Charles H. Finson, 29, Bangor, m; discharged Feb. 7, 1865. 
Resides at Exeter, Me. 

Wagoner. 

Stillman S. Woodcock, 21, Topsfield, s; returned to ranks Dec. 31, 
1862 ; promoted Corporal Jan. 23, 1864, Sergeant July i, 1864; Color 
JJearer from July i, 1864 to May i, 1865 ; promoted Second Lieutenant 
April 25, 1865 ; discharged Aug. 28, 1865. Resides at Wellington, 
Kansas. 

Privates. 

David Ames, 39, Bangor, m; wounded May 25, 1864; discharged 
Dec. 8, 1864. Died at Bangor, Me., Sept. 9, 1898. 

Gustavus W. Bean, 27, Etna, s ; killed June 17, 1864. 

Horatio F. Bean, 22, Etna, s ; died of disease Nov. 3, 1862. 

Paul Berry, 19, Stetson, s ; discharged Dec. 14, 1862. Resides at 
Stetson, Me. 

Stephen M. Bickford, 31, Bangor, s; promoted Corporal Feb. 28, 
1865; wounded April 6, 1865; discharged June 6, 1865. Died at 
Bangor, Me., April 27, 1901. 

Amaziah Billings, 35, Bangor, s; promoted Artificer; wounded and 
taken prisoner Oct. 27, 1864, exchanged March i, 1865 ; ^i^d of 
disease April 17, 1865. 

Almon W. Blackman, 20, Eddington, s; promoted Corporal July i, 
1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 



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RECORDS OF COMPANY D. 279 

William H. Bragdon, iS, Bangor, s; transferred to the Navy April 
15, 1864. Died at New York City, March ii, 1889. 

George J. Brewer, 35, Robbinston, s; promoted Second Lieutenant, 
Company L Jan. 25, 1865 and transferred. See Company L. 

Daniel W. Briggs, ^;^, Robbinston, s ; died of disease Oct. 29, 1862. 

Charles F. Broad, 18, Eddington, s ; killed June 18, 1864. 

Abel Brooks, 29, Robbinston, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Robbinston, Me. 

Augustus Brown, 21, Vienna, s; promoted Corporal Dec. 14, 1863, 
Sergeant Feb. 16, 1865 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

George Brown, 23, Vienna, s ; killed June 18, 1864. 

William Burgess, 19, Topsfield, s ; promoted Corporal Nov, i, 1864 ; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Forest City, Me. 

Horace VV. Burleigh, 21, Brewer, s ; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 1864 l 
died July 16, 1864 of wounds received June 18. 

Charles H. Calef, 24, Eddington, s; promoted Corporal Jan. 11, 
1864; wounded March 25, 1865; discharged June 6, 1865. Died 
Jan. 20, 1881. 

Henry S. Campbell, 18, Eddington, s; transferred to the Navy 
April 15, 1864. Died at Boston, Mass., Feb. 14, 1897. 

Alexander Carr, 2,^, Clifton, m ; discharged Aug. 15, 1864. Resides 
at Alpaena, Mich. 

Samuel W. Clark, 30, Baring, m ; deserted March 29, 1864. 

Valentine Clewley, 21, Eddington, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Brewer, Me. 

Joseph W. Covel, 31, Bangor, m ; promoted Corporal Feb. 29, 1864 ; 
discharged June 6, 1865. Died at Rockland, Me., May 14, 1885. 

Robert R. Damon, 18, Stetson, s ; died of disease Oct. 30, 1862 

^Villiam Dixon, 31, Bangor, m; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged Feb. 8, 1865. Resides at Holden, Me. 

James Dore, 24, Bangor, m; transferred to the Navy April 15, 1865. 
Died at Bangor, Me. 

Joseph P. Dorr, 18, Stetson, s ; promoted Corporal March i, [865 ; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Orono, Me. 

Adrian R. Drew, 18, Bangor, s; died July 16, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

Isaac Dunning, 36, Eddington, s; appointed Wagoner Dec. i, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 30, 1865. Resides 
at Whitneyville, Me. 



28o THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Andrew Firth, i8, Bangor, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides 
at Bangor, Me. 

George H. Fish, 19, Carmel. s; died of disease June 14, 1863. 

Henry H. Frost, 18, Robbinston, s. ; taken prisoner March 25, 
1865 ; paroled March 29, 1865 ; discharged June 13, 1865. Resides 
at Bradley, Me. 

Isaac W. Gillespie, 20, Bangor, s; transferred to Navy April 15, 
1864. Resides at Cambridgeport, Mass. 

Walter S. Gilman, t8, Bangor, s; promoted Corporal Aug. 31, 
1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 6, 1865. Died Nov. 
3O' 1893. 

Joseph Goodwin, 2,8, Bangor, m; discharged Dec. 15, 1864. Died 
in 1897. 

Albion K. P. Grant, 24, Eddington, s; promoted Corporal July i, 
1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged in 1865. Resides at 
Eddington, Me. 

Henry S. Hall, 18, Bangor, s , leg broken by falling tree in fall of 

1862 ; transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps Feb. 1864, and dis- 
charged therefrom June 24, 1865. Resides at Washington, D. C. 

John W. Hanscom, 28, Bangor, s; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged March 20, 1865. Died at Augusta, Me., June 19, 1891. 

Ebenezer D. Harlow, 26, Robbinston, s; wounded May 31, 1864; 
transferred to the V. R. C. April i, 1865, and discharged therefrom 
June 29, 1865. Re!^ides at Robbinston, Me. 

John R. Hickey, 37, Robbinston, m ; transferred to the Navy April 
15, 1864. Died at Robbinston, Me., in 1871. 

Henry M. Howe, 21, Eddington, s; promoted Corporal Dec. 15, 

1863 ; Sergeant Jan. 23, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged 
June 6, 1865. Resides at Merrimac, Mass. 

John W. Hurd, 18, Bangor, s; died of disease Dec. 16, 1862. 

Josiah E. Hurd, 21, Stetson, s; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 1864; 
killed June 18, 1S64. 

Christopher L. Hutchinson, 37, Bangor, m; transferred to the Navy 
April 15, 1864. Died at Bangor, Me., Nov. 19, 1902. 

Corydon Ireland, 26, Bangor, m ; promoted Corporal July i, 1864; 
Sergeant Jan. 16, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; mustered out June 
6, 1865. Died at Brainard, Minn., April i, 1887. 

John Jellison, 44, Clifton, m; discharged Aug. 10, 1863. Resides 
at Clifton, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY D. 28 1 

George A. Johnson, 28, Orono, m ; discharged Nov 4, 1862. 

George E. Johnson, 25, Robbinston, s; promoted Corporal March 
I, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 6, 1865. Resides 
at Robbinston, Me. 

Roscoe G.Johnson, 18, Bangor, s; wounded June 4, 1864; dis- 
charged Nov. 14, 1864. Died Aug. 14, 1865. 

Samuel P. Jones, 34, Bangor, m; appointed Musician in 1863; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Dover, Me. 

Calvin Kirk, 27, Bangor, m; promoted Corporal July i, 1864; 
wounded Nov. 4, 1864; discharged April 27, 1865. Resides at 
Bangor, Me. 

Ward A. Knox, 39, Topsfield, m; discharged June 13, 1865. 
Resides at Milltown, Me. 

Hezekiah H. Lane, 33, Bangor, m; promoted Sergeant Feb. 28, 
1864, 2d Lieutenant Nov. 8, 1864; promoted ist Lieutenant Com- 
pany C Feb. 9, 1865, and transferred. See Company C. 

Frank R. Leach, 21, Robbinston, s; promoted Corporal July i, 
1864; wounded Sept. 10, 1864; discharged May 5, 1865. Resides 
at Robbinston, Me. 

Daniel R. Leathers, 32, Exeter, m; discharged Oct. 22, 1863. 
Resides at East Saginaw, Mich. 

George H. Leathers, 20, Exeter, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at East Saginaw, Mich. 

Walter Leighton, 29, Bangor, m ; discharged Feb. 15, 1865. Died 
at Bangor, Me., Dec. 12, 1886. 

Charles W. Lowell, 18, Bangor, s; transferred to the Navy April 15, 
1864. Died at Old Town, Me., Dec. 14, 1900. 

Thomas McCluskey, 35, Bangor, m ; transferred to the V. R. C. 
about September, 1864. Died at Dayton, Ohio, June, 1900. 

Charles H. Merrill, 18, Bangor, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Newport, Me. 

James Morrill, 23, Robbinston, m; killed March 25, 1865. 

Edward K. Moulton, 18. Bangor, s; promoted Corporal Dec. 31, 
1864; wounded June 4, and June 18, 1864; mustered out June 6, 
1865. 

Lorenzo Parker, 28, Clifton, s; discharged May 22, 1865. Resides 
at Clifton, Me. 

William W. Philbrick, Jr., 25, Bangor, s ; died of disease Oct. 26, 
1862. 



282 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

David T. Pierce, 25, Bangor, m; transferred to the V. R. C. Oct. 

14, 1864, and discharged therefrom July 3, 1865. Died at Guilford, 
Me., Jan. 15, 1894. 

George W. Porter, 19, Bangor, m ; transferred to the Navy April 15, 
1864. 

John N. Prescott, 20, Bangor, s ; died of disease April 9, 1863. 

Joseph B. Prescott, 45, Bangor, m; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Bangor, Me., July 27, 1887. 

Harvey H. Reed, 40, Bangor, m; died June 27, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

Frank S. Robinson, 19, Bangor, s; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 1864, 
Sergeant Feb. 23, 1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

James F. Robinson, 26, Bangor, m; promoted Cor | oral April 13, 
1864, Sergeant Nov. 14, 1864, and 2d Lieutenant Feb. 9, 1865 ; 
wounded June 18, 1864; i)romoted ist Lieutenant Company C Aug. 

15, 1865, and transferred. See Company C. 

Thomas Rose, 35, Bangor, m; died of disease Sept. 28, 1864. 

Reuben W. Seavey, 18, Stetson, s; killed June 18, 1864. 

Charles N. Smith, 21, Bangor, s; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Resides at Newlon, Mont. 

Charles W. Smith, 18, Bangor, s; promoted Corporal Nov. 26, 
1862; on Color Guard; died May 22, 1864, of wounds received May 
19. 

David Smith, 19, Dixmont, s; transferred to the Navy April 15, 
1864. 

George A. Stanhope, 22, Robbinston, m ; promoted Corporal Nov. 
I, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Calais, Me. 

Sumner Tibbetts, 27, Bangor, m ; promoted Corporal Jan. 23, 1864 ; 
died July 30, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Rodolphus A. Tufts, 18, Stetson, s; killed Oct. 2," 1864. 

William Wallace, 43, Bangor, m; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged June 15, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., June 21, 1895. 

Matthew Watters, 32, Bangor, m; promoted Artificer; killed June 
18, 1864. 

Robert A. Webster, 19, Bangor, s ; wounded March 25, 1865; dis- 
charged June I, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

George W. Witham, 21, Bangor, m; discharged June 5, 1865. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY D. 283 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1 862. 

John Bowen, i8, Bangor, s ; mustered March lo, 1863; wounded 
June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Caldwell, 
Mich. 

Warren Boynton, 18, Bangor, s; mustered March 17, 1863; trans- 
ferred to the Navy May 11, 1864. Killed at the battle of Fort Fisher. 

George V. Brann, 18, Veazie, s; mustered March 17, 1863; trans- 
ferred to the Navy May 11, 1864. 

Gorham Bulger, 18, Bangor, s; mustered June 12, 1863; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. Died at Cincinnati, O., July, 1891. 

Alfred W. Cappers, 20, Bangor, s ; mustered Feb. 10, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal June 30, 1865; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died 
at Bangor, Me., June 14, 1887. 

William C. Chamberlain, 19, Bangor, s; mustered March 10, 1863; 
died July 11, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

John Cox, 18, Bangor, s; mustered March 24, 1863; mustered out 
Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Fred F. Davis, Bangor, s; mustered Feb. 21, 1863; promoted 
Corporal June 7, 1865, Sergeant June 30, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 1 1, 
1865. Resides at Togus. Me. 

Thomas Donohue, 21, Bangor, s; mustered March 19, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal June 30, 1865; Sergeant Aug. 31, 1865; wounded 
June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

Hiram Dulac, 18, Skowhegan, s; mustered Jan. 16, 1863; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged May 9, 1865. Died at Skowhegan, Me., 
May 30, 1902. 

Otis Dunbar, 21, Bangor, s; mustered March 10, 1863; died 
June 19, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Albert C. Ellis, 18, Bangor, s; mustered Feb. 10, 1863 ; promoted 
Corporal Jan. i, 1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

Samuel M. Emerson, 24, Bangor, s; mustered May 4, 1863; pro- 
moted Principal Musician July i, 1863 and transferred. See Field and 
Staff. 

Lorenzo Fields, 26, Houlton, s; mustered June 13, 1863; trans- 
ferred to the Navy May 11, 1864. 

George A. Haskell, 18, Bangor, s; mustered Feb. 21, 1863; taken 
prisoner May 21, 1864; died in prison, date unknown. 

Charles A. Jones, 18, Bangor, s; mustered July 13, 1863; taken 



284 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

prisoner Oct 2, 1864; paroled Oct. 8, 1864; discharged June 16, 
1865. Resides at Portland, Me. 

James Lewis, 26, Houlton, m ; mustered June 13, 1863; deserted 
March 9, 1864. 

Archibald McDougall, 41, Bangor, m; mustered June 30, 1863: 
wounded Aug. 16, 1864; discharged June 10, 1865. 

Timothy Mahoney, 19, Bangor, s; mustered March 19, 1863; 
transferred to the Navy May 11, 1864. 

William A. Miller, 23, Rockport, m; mustered Feb. 10, 1863; 
deserted Aug. i, 1863. 

Charles E. Parkhurst, 18, Bangor, s; mustered March 31, 1863. 
Died July 18, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Alphonzo W. Philbrook, 21, Bangor, s. ; mustered March 10, 1863 ; 
promoted Artificer June 30, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

Norris N. Pierce, 25, Bangor, m; mustered Feb. 3, 1863; pro- 
moted Commissary Sergeant, Company M, March 12, 1864, and 
transferred. See Company M. 

Henry Pomroy, 2^, Bangor, m; mustered March 17, 1863; trans- 
ferred to Company K January, 1864. See Company K. 

Frank S. Powers, iS, Bangor, s; mustered April 15, 1863; died 
Aug. 8, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Charles E. Sylvester, 18, Castine, s; mustered April 21, 1863; 
transferred to the Navy April 15, 1864. 

Charles H. Tuesley, 20, Hermon, s; mustered April 15, 1863; 
appointed ^Musician March 10, 1863: mustered out Sept. 11, 1865; 
died at Perham, Minn., Nov. 26, 1886. 

John M. Tuttle, 18, Bangor, s; mustered March 10, 1863; dis- 
charged June 21, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 



JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1S63. 

Charles H. Austin, 28, Mexico, m; mustered Jan. 13, 1864; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

Prentiss M. Baker, 18, Bangor, s; mustered Dec. 23, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal June 7, 1865 ; discharged Sept. 20, 1865. 

William H. Betham, 23, Enfield, s ; mustered Nov. 23, 1863; died 
of disease Aug. 23, 1864. 

Edward Bird, 30, Gardiner, m; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. Died at Farmingdale, Me., Aug. 15, 1889. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY D. 285 

David Bishop, 48, Mattawamkeag, m; mustered Dec. 8, 1863; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Hiram G. Bolton, 34, Corinth, m; mustered Dec. 10, 1863; taken 
prisoner Oct. 27, 1864; exchanged March 25, 1865 ; discharged Aug. 
16, 1865. 

George W. Boucher, Boston, Mass., m; mustered Jan. 12, 1864; 
mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

James W. Bowman, 29, Bangor, m; mustered Dec. 31, 1863; 
promoted Sergeant Aug. 31, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

Elisha Burton, 42, Orland, m ; mustered Dec. 15, 1863 ; discharged 
July 5, 1865. Resides at Orland, Me. 

Jeremiah Cook, 39, Old Town, m; mustered Nov. 17, 1863 ; died 
July 16, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

George H. Crosby, 18, Bangor, s; mustered Dec. 10, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 6, 1865. Resides at 
Minneapolis, Minn. 

Albert T. Curtis, 39, Enfield, m ; mustered Nov. 23, 1863 ; dis- 
charged June 8, 1865. Resides at Enfield, Me. 

Horatio B. Downer, 42, Norway, m; mustered Jan. 13, 1864; 
killed June 17, 1864. 

Alberti J. Dunbar, 18, Columbia, s; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; killed 
May 21, 1864. 

William C. Durgans, 18, Veazie, s; mustered Nov. 28, 1863 ; died 
of disease April 16, 1865. 

VVingate J. Durgin, 34, Newfield, s; mustered Dec. 22, 1863; died 
of disease April 16, 1865. 

James W. Dutton, 36, Old Town, m ; mustered Nov. 17, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 19, 1865. Resides at 
Stillwater, Maine. 

William E. Dutton, 28, Old Town, m; mustered Nov. 17, 1863; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Hazen B. Eastman, 31, Exeter, m; mustered Nov. 28, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. Resides at East Grand Forks, Minn. 

Sylvester Eaton, 44, Dixfield, m ; mustered Jan. 12, 1864; wounded 
June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died at Dixfield, 
Me., prior to 189 1. 

Jehiel S. Flanders, 29, Hudson, m; mustered Nov. 30, 1863 ; dis- 
charged Jan. 15, 1865. Died March, 1890. 



286 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Edward Flinn, 18, Robbinston, s ; mustered Dec. 10, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Calais, Me. 

Ichabod G. Furbish, 41, Bangor, m; mustered Jan. i, 1864; dis- 
charged June 6, 1865. 

Emery VV. Hatch, 18, Orono, s; mustered Nov. 23, 1863; killed 
Sept. 10, 1864. 

Thomas Hatch, 42, Auburn, m; mustered Jan. 13, 1864; died July 
13, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Joseph Hazleton, 43, Bangor, m; mustered Dec. 12,1863; dis- 
charged June 5, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., Nov. it, 1869. 

Benjamin W. Hinton, 18, Robbinston, s ; mustered Dec. 11, 1863 ; 
wounded Oct. 27, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at 
North Dixmont, Me. 

Charles O. Hutchinson, 18, Bargor, s ; mustered Dec. 3, 1863 ; 
mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Elcojon, San Diego County, 
Cal. 

Austin L. Jones, 38, Holden, m; mustered Sept. 5, 1864; dis- 
charged July 18, 1865. 

Llewellyn Knowlton, 18, Swanville, s ; mustered Jan. 9, 1864. Died 
June 24, 1864, of wounds received June 17. 

Nathan Knowlton, 44, Appleton, m; mustered Jan. 2, 1864; 
wounded June 3, 1864. Died of disease Feb. 15, 1865. 

William Knowlton, Jr., 18, Swanville, s; mustered Jan. 4, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 3, 1865. Resides at 
Liberty, Me. 

John S. Libby, 45, Bangor, m; mustered Dec. 23, 1863; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

Aaron Nason, 33, Orono, m ; mustered Nov. 25, 1863; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged June 11, 1865. Died at Togus, Me., 
Oct. 27, 1900. 

Gideon K. Oliver, 43, Bradley, m; mustered Dec. 31, 1863 ; dis- 
charged April 4, 1865. Died at New Bedford, Mass., February, 1902. 

Jonas Page, 44, Bangor, m; mustered Jan. 31, 1864; discharged 
Sept. 20, 1865. I^ied at Bangor, Me., Dec. 12, 1886. 

John H. Partridge, 19, Hampden, s; mustered Nov. 16, 1863; 
mustered out Sept. ir, 1865. Died at Meredith, N. H., Feb. 19, 
1895. 

Charles F. Pease, 18, Exeter, s; mustered Dec. 7, 1863; dis- 
charged April I, 18C5. Resides at Exeter, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY D. 287 

Charles A. Peavey, i8, Orono, s ; mustered Nov. 19, 1863 ; taken 
prisoner June 22, 1864; paroled Oct. 20, 1864; discharged Sept. 18, 
1865. Died at Bangor, Me., Nov. 14, 1891. 

Hosea B. Perkins, 18, Bangor, s ; mustered Dec. 10, 1863 ; taken 
prisoner June 22, 1864, paroled Jan. 20, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 
1865. Died at Togas, Me., June 25, 1900. 

Eugene S. Philbrcok, 18, Bangor, s; mustered Nov. 14, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal June 30, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died at 
North Bradford, Me. 

John Potter, 43, Hudson, m; mustered Nov. 25, 1863; wounded 
Oct. 2, 1864; discharged July 18, 1865. 

Charles H. Reed, 18, Harmony, s; mustered Nov. 23, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal June 30, 1865; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Auburn, Me. 

Seward P. Richardson, 19, Bangor, s; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; pro- 
moted Sergeant June 7, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died at 
Minneapolis, Minn., April, 1901. 

James A. Scullin, 30, Bangor, s; mustered Nov. 27, 1863; not 
accounted for. 

John T. Sears, 21, Orono, s; mustered Nov. 23, 1863; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Lewiston, Me. 

Charles Shaw, 44, Exeter, m; mustered Dec. 7, 1863; died of 
disease May 11, 1864. 

Horace A. Smith, 18, Bangor, s ; mustered Dec. 23, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11,186c;. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Horace S.Smith, 45, Bangor, m; mustered Dec. 24, 1863; mus- 
tered out^Sept. II, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., Nov. 24, 1883. 

James I. Smith, 36, Bangor, m; mustered Dec. 23, 1863; dis- 
charged June I, 1865. 

Gilbert Stanhope, 18, Robbinston, s ; mustered Dec. 11, 1863 ; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. Died at Whitneyville, Me., June 4, 1902. 

Theodore C. Stevens, 21, Bangor, s; mustered Aug. 21, 1863; 
wounded June 4, 1864. Resides at Bath, Me. 

Sewall B. Waite, 44, Lewiston, m ; mustered Nov. 14, 1863 ; dis- 
charged Sept. 20, 1865. Resides at Hampton, Va., Soldiers' Home. 

James B.Webb, 34, Veazie, m; mustered Nov. 21, 1863; dis- 
charged June 26, 1865. 

Samuel J. Wentworth, 14, Veazie, s ; mustered Nov. 28, 1863 ; pro- 
moted Corporal in 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 



288 THE FIRST MAINK HEAVY APTILLERY. 

Frank W. Whittier, 19, Bangor, s; mustered Nov. 23, 1863; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

Benjamin F. Wiley, Jr., 18, Bangor, s; mustered Jan. 9, 1864, 
mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1864. 

Commissioned Officers. 

Captain Abiather J. Knowles, Lagrange, joined by transfer from Com- 
pany K Aug. 19, 1865 ; was Pioneer Officer at Brigade Headquarters, 
winter of 1865 up to April 25 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides 
at Bradford Me. 

First Lieut. James A. Dole, Bangor, joined by transfer from Company 
F Nov. 14, 1864; resigned June 10, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

First Lieut. Fayette M. Paine, New Vineyard, joined by transfer from 
the 17th Maine Infantry June 3, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

Enlisted Men. 

George Firth, 43, Bangor, m; mustered Aug. 23, 1864; died of 
disease Jan. 9, 1865. 

Richard Firth, 21, Bangor, s ; mustered Sept. 22, 1864; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me. 




Captain Grossman with nF.TArH\ri 





Co. D, Serving Heavy Artillery. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY E. 



189 



COMPANY E. 

As Mustered Aug. 21, 1862. 

Brevet Colonel WHITING S. CLARK. 



Original captain and organizer of the 
company. Of distinguished lineage ; 
educated by his own endeavor at Fox- 
croft and Bloomfield Academies and 
Waterville College, he brought native 
resource and cultured energy to his 
country's service. He was of spotless 
character, an excellent officer of unques- 
tioned courage and intense loyalty. He 
was in all the battles of the regiment to 
June 18, 1864, where he was wounded. 
Commissioned Major Oct. 27, 1864. 
Not mustered. Discharged for disability 
Oct.. 26, T864. After the war he was ^^^^' WHITING S. CLARK. 
a prominent citizen and attorney at Bangor, Me., and Des Moines, 
Iowa. Died at Des Moines, Iowa, April 26, 1891. 









Capt. BENJ. F. ROLLINS. Lieut. JOHN F. KNOWLES. 

Captain BENJAMIN F. ROLLINS. 

Joined from Dixmont as Sergeant. A modest, beardless boy, soldier 
born, unassuming, brave, and true to every duty. Promoted for merit 



2gO THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

to Second Lieutenant March 23, 1864, First Lieutenant Oct. 17, 1864, 
and Captain Dec. 13, 1864. See last chapter. Has, since the war, 
been prominent and prosperous m mercantile pursuits. 

First Lieutenant JOHN F. KNOWLES. 

joined as Sergeant from Jackson. Was promoted for merit to 
Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant. Paid the fullest measure of 
loyalty with his life, in unflinching bravery, May 19, 1864, in battle of 
Spottsylvania. 







■^T-PP^^ 



Lieut. GEORGE P. POTE. Lieut. FRANK A. CLARK. 

First Lieut. GEORGE P. POTE. 

An excellent soldier, unassuming and capable, he fitted anywhere 
and discharged every duty well. Promoted from Quartermaster Ser- 
geant to Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant for merit Dec. 13, 
1864. 

First Lieut. FRANK A. CLARK. 

Joined as a private, promoted for merit to Corporal, Sergeant, 
Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant. Like his brothers, he brought 
brains, courage, energy and loyalty to his country's service. He was 
a good soldier and an excellent officer. Was in all the battles of 
his regiment; wounded, but returned to see the finish of the war. 
Has served his country well since the war in important positions in 
Washington, D. C. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY E. 



Co7?imissiofjed Officers. 



291 



Captain Whiting S. Clark, 25, Sangerville, s; commissioned Major 
Oct. 27, 1864, not mustered; breveted Colonel; wounded June 18, 
1864; discharged Oct. 26, 1864, Died at Des Moines, la., April 26, 
1891. 

First Lieut. James W. Clark, 23, Sangerville, s; acting Adjutant 
from March 10, 1864; died July 24, 1S64 from wounds received 
June 18. 

Second Lieut. Frederic A. Cummings, 24 Bangor, m ; promoted 
First Lieutenant Jan. 21, 1864, and to Captain Company M March 12, 
1864 and transferred. See Company M. 

Serge atits. 

John S. Ober, 31, Dover, m ; promoted Second Lieutenant Jan. 21, 
1864; commissioned First Lieutenant June 21, 1864, not mustered ; 
discharged Oct. 25, 1864. Resides at Spencer, Mass. 

John F. Knowles, 24, Jackson, m ; promoted Second Lieutenant Jan. 
21, 1864, and First Lieutenant March 23, 1864; killed May 19, 1864. 

Albert W. Chapin, 21, Monson, s; wounded June 16, 1864; pro- 
moted Second Lieutenant in the 24th U. S. Colored Troops Feb. 19, 
1865, and transferred. Resides at Monson, Me. 

Calvin Brown, 31, Atkinson, s; promoted First Lieutenant in the 
U. S. Colored Troops July 8, 1863 and transferred. Died at Brazier 
City, La., in 1863. 

Benjamin F. Rollins, 21, Dixmont, s; promoted Second Lieutenant 
March 23, 1864, First Lieutenant Oct. 17, 1864, and Captain Dec. 13, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; resigned July 27, 1865. Resides at 
Plymouth, Me. 

Corporals. 

Edwin T. Edes, 18, Parkman, s; discharged Dec. 19, 1862. Killed 
inaction March 31, 1865, while a Sergeant in Company I First Maine 
Cavalry. 

Jeremiah Dame, 31, Parkman, m; promoted Commissary Ser- 
geant Jan. 10, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 
1865. Died at Monson, Me., April 4, 1887. 

Ludovic O. Gatchell, 24, Lee, s ; died of disease Sept. lO, 1862. 
The first death in the regiment. 



2Q2 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Samuel T. Hiscock, 21, Abbot, s ; promoted Sergeant Aug. 14 
1863; First Sergeant Jan. 27, 1864; commissioned Second Lieut 
June 2 1, 1864, not mustered; died July 5, 1864, from wounds 
received June iS. 

George W. Labree, 31, Parkman, m; promoted Sergeant Jan. 10 
1864; wounded June 22, 1864: discharged June 21, 1865. Reside; 
at North Dexter, Me. 

Joseph S. Church, 25, Shirley, s; taken prisoner June 22, 1864 
died in prison soon after, date unknown. 

Daniel W. Pettengill, 18, Corinna, s; promoted First Sergean 
Company M March 13, 1864, and transferred. See Company M. 

Charles H. Sawyer, 20, Greenville, s; promoted Sergeant Jan. 10 
1864, First Sergeant July 4, 1864, Second Lieut. July 15, 1864, and 
First Lieut. Company M Jan. 16, 1865, and transferred. See Com 
pany M.' 

A/usia'an. 

Newton S. Grout, 19, Monroe, s; discharged May 11, 1865. Died 
at Sedalia, Colo., January, iqoi. 

Wag07ier. 

Urial L. Clark, 34, Brownville, m; discharged May 11, 1865. Died 
at Milo, Me., November, 1899. 

P7'ivafes. 

Thomas Arnold, 18, Monson, s; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Died at Parkman, Me., March 13, 1876. 

George G. Ayer, 24, Sangerville, s; transferred to the V. R. C. 
Dec. 14, 1864. Died Jan. 16, 1885. 

Samuel B. Ayer, 18, Sangerville, s; discharged May 11, 1865. 
Resides at Grafton, W. Va. 

Emerson Bartlett, 18, Lee, s; killed May 19, 1864. 

John Bradford, 18, Alton, s; died May 20, 1864, from wounds 
received May 19. 

Joseph F. Brown, 21, Greenbush, s ; killed May 19, 1864. 

Seth H. Brown, 20, No. 3 township, south of Lee, s; killed May 19, 
1864. 

William H. Brown, 19, Jackson, s; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged May 18, 1865. Resides at West Littleton, Mass. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY E. 



295 



William H. Buck, 23, Monson, s; died June 17, 1864, oi wounds 
received June 16. 

Ervin Chamberlain, 18, Foxcroft, s; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged Jan. 20, 1865. Died at LaCross, Wis., Dec. 26, 1897. 

Lucian H. Chase, 23, Jackson, s; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged April 4, 1865. Died at Lowell, Mass., April 16, 1898. 

Henry N. Cole, 18, Abbot, s; killed June 18, 1864. 

Wilson G. Cole, 19, Abbot, s; killed May 19, 1864. 

Abel J. Curtis, 24, Parkman, s ; promoted regimental Com- 
missary Sergeant Dec. 29, 1864, and transferred. See Field and Staff. 

Everett M. Delano, 19, Abbot, s ; promoted Corporal January, 1864; 
died May 26, 1864, from wounds received May 19. 

William Dermott, 18, Monson, s; discharged May 22, 1865. Died 
at Monson, Me., Sept. 26, 1884. 

John Dow, 28, Foxcroft, s; discharged Aug. 2, 1863. Died at 
Auburn, Me., March 27, 1902. 

Charles Eaton, 18, Foxcroft, s; promoted Corporal Nov. i, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Coupville, Island County, 
Washington. 

Thomas O. Eaton, 21, Foxcroft, s; promoted Corporal Jan. 10,, 
1864, Sergeant, March 28, 1864; wounded June 16, 1864; discharged 
March 20, 1865. Resides at Earlville, Delaware County, Iowa. 

William A. Fenlason, 18, Jackson, s; promoted Corporal Jan. 10,. 
1864, Sergeant Sept. 29, 1864 ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; mustered out 
June 6, 1865. Died at Brooks, Me., in 1901. 

John Fitzgerald, 22, Bangor, m; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Died at Brewer, Me., May 21, 1902. 

Samuel Flanders, 44, Shirley, m; died June 15, 1864 of wounds 
received May 19. 

Albion K. Fletcher, 21, Jackson, s; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged March i, 1865. Resides at North Monroe, Me. 

Charles Fogg. 18, Brownville, s; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged June 5, 1865. Resides at Princeton, Minn. 

Elbridge G. Frost, 21, Milo, s; wounded Sept. 27, 1864; dis- 
charged June 6, 1865. Died at Orneville, Me., in 1888. 

Charles A. Gaichell, 34, Lee, m; discharged May 20, 1863. 

Charles H. Gatchell, 22, Jackson, s; promoted Corporal July 14, 
1863, Sergeant Jan. 27, 1864; v^^ounded May 19, 1864; discharged 
June 24, 1865. Resides at East Jackson, Me. 



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THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY, 



Charles A. Gates, 19, Monson, s; wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Died at Hartford, Conn., Feb. 2, 1872. 

Alonzo P. Gerrish, 26, Greenville, s; died of disease Nov. 19, 1862. 

James H. Gerrish, 22 Greenville, s; wounded June 18, 1864; died 
-of disease Aug. 12, 1864. 

Samuel V. Girrill, 24, Sangerville, m ; transferred to Company M 
March 17, 1864. See Company M. 

Dexter Goodwin, 30, Monson, m ; promoted Corporal Oct. 28, 1862, 
Sergeant January, 1864; wounded June 18, and Aug. 18, 1864; died 
of disease Sept. 29, 1864. 

John H. Hall, 19, Shirley, s; promoted Corporal January, 1864; 
•discharged Jan. 25, 1865. Resides at Greenville, Me. 

Atwood Hillard. 36, Bangor, m; wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., Feb. 27, 1882. 

Gustavus B. Hiscock, 9, Abbot, s; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged Feb. 16, 1865. Resides at Monson, Me. 

Charles J. House, 20 Lee, s; promoted Corporal June 17, 1864, 
Sergeant Oct. 22, 1864, First Sergeant Oct. 27, 1864; wounded May 
19, and June 18, 1864; promoted Second Lieutenant Company 
C Feb. 9, 1865, ^^d transferred. See Company C. 

Leonard E. Howard, 23, Abbot, s ; promoted Corporal Jan. 10, 
1864; wounded June 4, 1864; discharged June 4, 1865. Resides at 
31 Ridgeway Street, Lynn, Mass. 

Aaron W. Jackson, 18, Sangerville, s; wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged June 30, 1865. Resides at Livermore, Me. (Canton post 
office.) 

Bradish B. Jackson, 21, Monson, s; promoted Corporal May i, 
1865 '1 wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides 
at Monson, Me. 

William G. Jones, 27, Brownvllle, m; discharged Jan. 12, 1863. 
Died at Monson, Me., Sept. 10, 1900. 

Horace B. Jordan, 23, Mariaville, s; promoted Corporal Jan. 10, 
1864, and First Sergeant Feb. 20, 1865 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Zacharia B. Knight, 29, Searsport, m; discharged Nov. 10, 1862. 

Cyrus S. Labree, 25, Parkman, s; promoted Corporal January, 
1864 ; killed May 19, 1864. 

James L. Legrow, 29, Dover, m ; promoted Corporal Dec. 10, 1862 ; 
discharged Feb. i, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY E. 



295 



Lewis Lord, 19, Dexter, s; died June 25, 1864, from wounds 
received June 18. 

Benjamin C. Lyford, 23, Atkinson, s; wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged March 19, 1865. Resides at Litchfield, Me. 

Stephen L. McDonald, 24, Parkman, s; deserted April 9, 1864. 
Died at Augusta, Me., about 1890. 

Andrew W. McFarland, 18, Bradford, s; wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged Sept. 20, 1865. Resides at Eddington, Me. 

Leander Maxim, 16, Abbot, s; killed May 19, 1864. 

Delvin B. Merrill, 19, Ellsworth, s; promoted Artificer Feb. 20, 
1865 ; wounded May 19, 1864 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Charles F. Mitchell, 26, Shirley, m; deserted March 29, 1863, 
Resides at Broadhead, Wis. 

Moses D. Mitchell, 36, Shir m; died of disease Feb. 18, 1863. 

Erastus T. Monroe, 19, Abbot, s; promoted Corporal January, 
1864, Sergeant Oct. 27, 1864; discharged May 18, 1865. Resides at 
Foxcroft, Me. 

Stephen Myrick, 36, Dixmont, m; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Belfast, Me., May 25, 1895. 

David Palmer, 23, Sangerville, s; promoted Corporal Sept. 29, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides 
at North Dexter, Me. 

Levi Palmer, 28, Sangerville, s ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides 
at Corinna, Me. 

Charles M. Parshley, 18, Sangerville, s; promoted Corporal Dec. 
19, 1862, Sergeant January, 1864; killed May 19, 1864. 

Moses A. Parshley, 20, Sangerville, s; promoted Sergeant Company 
M March 14, 1864, and transferred. See Company M. 

Charles L. Patten. 19, Blanchard, s ; wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged June 14, 1865. Resides at Washington, D. C. 

Jesse J. Peacock, 31, Lee, m ; died of disease Nov. 22, 1862. 

George P. Pote, 20, Belfast, s; promoted regimental Commissary 
Sergeant March i, 1863, and transferred. See Field and Staff, also 
Company E, under head of '• Joined after Nov. i, 1864." 

William S. Randlett 18, Bangor, s; wounded May 19, 1864; taken 
prisoner June 22, 1864; exchanged in November, 1864; discharged 
in June 14, 1865. Resides at East Newport, Me. 

Richard P. Raynes, 40, Bangor, m ; slightly wounded June 16, 1864 ; 
promoted Artificer ; discharged June 12, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 



296 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Andrew J. Reeves, 19, Bradford, s; wounded May 19, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

William R. Reeves, 23, Bradford, m; died of disease Oct. 9, 1862. 

Benjamin W. Rollins, 28, Lee, s; wounded Oct. 27, 1864; dis- 
charged March 21, 1865. Died at Lee, Me., Nov. 8, 1866. 

Alpheus Rowell, 20, Dixmont, s ; promoted Artificer and Sergeant; 
wounded April 6, 1865 ; discharged June 12, 1865. Died at Clinton, 
Me., September, 1898. 

Wil'iam L. Sampson, 16, Bangor, s; wounded May 19, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Died at Monson, Me., April 24, 1884. 

Alfred B. Shea, 32, Blanchard, m; died June 26, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

Orrin A. Sidelinker, 29, Dixmont, m ; died June 10, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

Henry O. Smiley, 21, Bangor, s; promoted Corporal January, 1864; 
Color Bearer; died June 10, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Holman Staples, 27, Lee, s; died Aug. 10, 1864, of wounds received 
June 18. 

Mark P. Steward, 32, Monson, s; died of disease Oct. 11, 1862. 

Benjamin Stickney, 40, Jackson, m ; died of disease July 16, 
1863. 

Samuel F. Tasker, 18, Bangor, s ; promoted Corporal May 19, 1864 ; 
Color Bearer; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Charles Thurlow, 28, Lee, s; died of disease July 3, 1864. 

Adoniram J. Townes, 23, Monson, s; promoted Corporal Oct. 
27, 1864; mustered out Jane 6, 1865. Died Aug. 23, 1869. 

Charles E. Weld, 19, Abbot, s ; wounded May 19, 1864 ; discharged 
Feb. 9, 1865. Resides at Spokane, Washington. 

John Willard, 19, Brownville, s; died of disease Sept. 14, 1864. 

Jeptha Young, Jr., 25, Dixmont, s; promoted Corporal June 17, 
1864, Sergeant May i, 1865 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at 
Etna, Me., May 12, 1902. 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1 862. 

Eben W. Bean, 28, Dover, s; mustered Jan. 27, 1863; promoted 
Corporal January, 1864; died June 17, 1864, of wounds received 
May 19. 

Leonard H. Washburn, 19, Foxcroft, s; mustered March 24, 1863 ; 



RECORDS OF COMPANY E. 297 

wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 5, 1865. Resides at Fox- 
croft. Me. 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1863. 

Alfred S. Adams, 39, Cherryfield, m; mustered Dec. 5, 1863; pro- 
moted Chaplain of the regiment Nov. 8, 1864, and transferred. See 
Field and Staff. 

David W. Adams, 28, Caribou, m; mustered Dec. 24, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal Jan. 27, 1864; wounded April 6, 1865; discharged 
June 26, 1865. Died at Lynn, Mass., Sept. 21, 1890. 

Elisha H. Adams, 42, Bangor, m ; mustered Dec. 16, 1863 i wounded 
Oct. 17, 1864; discharged Feb. 17, 1865. Died at Providence, R. I., 
June 14, 1889. 

Benjamin D. Averill, 19, Prentiss, s; mustered Dec. 14, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal May i, 1865 ; Sergeant Sept. i, 1865 ; wounded May 
19, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Prentiss, Me. 

George E. Ball, 14, Exeter, s: mustered Jan. 5, 1864; wounded 
Aug. 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Exeter, 
Me. 

James A. Barnes, 18, Lee, s; mustered Dec. 28, 1863; wounded 
May 19, 1864; died Nov. 27, 1864, of wounds received Oct. 13. 

William Bartlett, 27, Lee, s; mustered Nov. 28, 1863; wounded 
May 19, 1864; deserted July 10, 1864. Resides at Lee, Me. 

Elisha H. Broad, 18, Eddington, s; mustered Dec. 26, 1863; 
promoted Corporal; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out Sept. 
II, 1865. Died at Eddington, Me., Jan. 7, 1888. 

George H. Brown, 26, Searsmont, m; mustered Jan. 2, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 6, 1865. Died Maine 
General Hospital, Portland, Me., Jan. 10, 1887. 

Joshua L. Brown, 20, Knox, s ; mustered Dec. 24, 1863 ; died July 
9, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Thomas Burk, ^S, Hancock, s; mustered Dec. 26, 1863 ; discharged 
April [7, 1864. 

Jason Burlingame, 19, Old Town, s; mustered Dec. 26, 1863, pro- 
moted Corporal June 27, 1865, Sergeant July i, 1865 ; mustered out 
Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Eureka, Nev. 

Albert Chadbourne, 18, Fryeburg, s; mustered Dec. 29, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Charles B. Chase, 20, York, s; mustered Sept. i, 1864; discharged 
June 15, 1865. 



2q8 the first MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Horace G. Chase, 20, York, s; mustered Sept. 6, 1864; discharged 
June 6, 1865. 

Frank A. Clark, 21, Sangerville, s ; mustered Dec. 24, 1863: pro- 
moted Corporal Jan. 31, 1864, Sergeant May 20. 1864, Second Lieu- 
tenant Oct. 17, 1864, and First Lieutenant Nov. 8, 1864; wounded Oct. 
27, 1864 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Washington, D. C. 

fames A. Coffin, 28, Lovell, m; mustered Dec. 29, 1863 ; died of 
disease March 5, 1864. 

Levi L. Curtis, 28, Searsport, m; mustered Dec, 15, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged Jan. 10, 1865. Resides at Belfast, Me. 

Willard G. Delano, 38, Bangor, m ; mustered Dec. 22, 1863 ; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

Elijah Dow, 23, Saco, m ; mustered Aug. 31, 1864 ; wounded March, 
31, 1S65 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Mechanic P'alls, Me. 
Nov. 23, 1873. 

Sullivan Ellis, 35, Sidney, s ; mustered Jan. 5, 1864 ; wounded Aug. 
18, 1864 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

Henry A. Evans, 21, Lovell, s; mustered Dec. 29, 1863 ; wounded 
May 19, 1864 ; died April 11, 1865, from wounds received April 6. 

Alton P. Fassett, 18, Abbot, s ; mustered Dec. 22, 1863 5 promoted 
Corporal Feb. 19, 1865 ; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 
6, 1865. Resides at Minneapolis, Minn. 

John Finney, 42, Chester, England, m; mustered Aug. 9, 1864; 
discharged June 6, 1865. 

James Fish, 41, Liberty, m; mustered Dec. 21, 1863; wounded 
May 19, 1864; discharged Feb. 11, 1865. Died at Liberty, Me., 
March 4, 1897. 

William Fish, 44, Liberty, m; mustered Dec. 21, 1863; died of 
disease June 9, 1864. 

David V. Fogg, 40, Bangor, m ; mustered Dec. 12, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864 and April 6, 1865 5 discharged June i, 1865. Died at 
Hampden, Me., Oct. 11, 1881. 

William W. P. Foster, 19, Franklin, s; mustered Dec. 17, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 3, 1865. Died in New 
Hampshire, March 8, 1887. 

Abial Fovvles, 23, Medway, m; mustered Dec. 26, 1863; died of 
disease June 9, 1864. 

Calvin A. Googings 19, Hancock, s; mustered Dec. 26, 1863; 
mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY E. 299 

George W. Greenough, 24, Exeter, s ; mustered Dec. 22, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; deserted July 29, 1865. 

Joshua Grinnell, 28, Appleton, m ; mustered Jan. 4, 1864 ; wounded 
June 16, 1864; discharged Dec. 16, 1864. Resides at Washington, 
Me. 

Charles W. Hanson, 24, Woodland, s; mustered Dec. 26, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

William H. Harmon, 42, Washburn, m; mustered Dec. 26, 1863; 
deserted May 14, 1864. 

Stephen F. Harriman, 18, Lovell, s; mustered Dec. 29, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged April 13, 1865. Died at Lovell, 
Me., Feb. 7, 1896. 

Albert Hayes, 24, Atkinson, m ; mustered Dec. 17, 1863 5 wounded 
June 4, and June 18, 1864; discharged June 16, 1865. 

Cyrus B. Hayes, 22, Atkinson, s; mustered Dec. 21, 1863; died 
June 6, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Robert Higgins, 44 (much older), Hancock, m ; mustered Dec. 26, 
1863 ; killed June 18, 1864. 

Amos M. Hilion, 24, Jefferson, m; mustered Sept. i, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Hillsdale, Wis. 

Amos K. Hodgdon, 2,8, Windham, m ; mustered Dec. 29, 1863 5 
promoted Corporal June 27, 1865, Sergeant Sept. i, 1865; wounded 
June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Hanover, 
N. H. 

Flavel B. Jackson, 19, Monson, s; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; killed 
May 19, 1864. 

George F. Jackson, 19, Abbot, s; mustered Dec. 21, 1863; 
discharged Sept. 20, 1865. Resides at Birmingham, Ala. 

Milo Keech, 30, Caribou, s; mustered Dec. 24, 1863; died of 
disease July 7, 1864. 

William R. Kennerson, 27, Lovell, m ; mustered Dec. 22, 1863; 
died Aug. 9, 1864, from wounds received June 18. 

Simeon P. Knox, 32, Stow, m ; mustered Dec. 19, 1863 ; promoted 
Corporal June 15, 1864, Sergeant June 7, 1865; mustered out Sept. 
II, 1865. Resides at Farmington, N. H. 

George P. Leighton, 26, Exeter, m; mustered Dec. 22, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged Dec. 16, 1864. Died at Fort 
Fairfield, Me., Sept. 30, 1883. 

Charles P. Lindsey, 37, Milo, m; mustered Dec. 12, 1863; pro- 



300 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

moted Corporal Sept. i, 1865 ; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out 
Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Lewiston, Me. 

Francis D. JJndsey, 29, Milo, m; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; killed 
May 19, 1864. 

Francis J. Lord, 21, Lovell, s; mustered Dec. 28, 1863 5 wounded 
May 19, 1864 ; died July 31, 1864, from wounds received June 16. 

Henry H. Lufkin, 18, Caribou, s; mustered Dec. 24, 1863; 
wounded May 19, and October, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 
Resides at Caribou, Me. 

Harrison P. Mclntire,3i, Woodland, m ; mustered Dec. 26, 1863 ; 
promoted Corporal May i, 1865, Sergeant June 7, 1865 5 vvounded 
May 19,1864; musteredoutSept.il, 1865. Resides at Caribou, Me. 

Nahum McKusick, 43, Foxcroft, s; mustered Dec. 12, 1863; pro- 
moted Musician Dec. 29, 1863, Principal Musician March i, 1864, and 
transferred See Field and Staff. 

Joseph McNamara, 18, Calais, s ; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; ri'^us- 
tered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

John Madigan, 28, Massachusetts, s; mustered Oct. 5, 1864; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

Peter Moore, 30, Sebec ; mustered Aug. 24, 1864 ; promoted Cor- 
poral July I, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

Almon C. Morton, 28, Monson, ra; mustered Dec. 18, 1863 ; died 
May 29, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Harry G. Morton, 21, Fryeburg, s; mustered Dec. 29, 1863; dis- 
charged June 19, 1865. Resides at Togus, Me. 

William T. Newbit, 19, Appleton, s; mustered Jan. 4, 1864: 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at 
Union, Me. 

Francis O. Nichols, 21, Ellsworth, s; mustered Aug. 8, 1864; 
wounded April 6, 1865; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Hal- 
lovvell. Me., Nov. i, 1882. 

Randall C. Noyes, 19, Atkinson, s; mustered Dec. 17, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged March 20, 1865. Resides at 
Pittsfield, Me. 

Amos D. Orne, 22, Newburg. m ; mustered Dec 22, 1863 ; wounded 
May 19, 1864; transferred to the V R. C. Feb. 18, 1865, and dis- 
charged therefrom June i, 1S65. Resides at Rockland, Me. 

James R. Orne, 22, Bangor, m ; mustered Dec. 22, 1863 ; wounded 
May 19, 1864 ; died June 20, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY E. 30I 

James W. Overlook, 24, Liberty, m; mustered Dec. 21, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at 
Rockland, Me. 

William G. Page, 44, Atkinson, m; mustered Dec. 29, 1863; 
wounded June 16, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. L)ied at Frank- 
lin plantation, Me., Feb. 13, 1895. 

Peter Pelkie, 22, Brewer; mustered Aug. 22, 1864; wounded and 
taken prisoner Oct. 27, 1864; died of wounds, date unknown. 

David O. Pollard, 30, Bangor, s ; mustered Dec. 16, 1863 ; wounded 
May 19, 1864; killed Aug. 18, 1864. 

VVinfield S. Potter, 18, Fryeburg, s; mustered Dec. 29, 1863; 
deserted Nov. 20, 1864. Died at Gorham, N. H., Feb. 26, 1900. 

John E. Quinn, 20, Ellsworth, s ; mustered Dec. 17, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal July i, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

John P. Roberts, 36, Castle Hill, s ; mustered Dec. 28, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at 
Castle Hill, Me. 

John Saul, 19, Old Town, s; mustered July 28, 1864; wounded 
March 25, 1865; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died at Old Town, 
Me., Aug. 20, 19C0. 

Luther J. Savvin, 18, Woodland, s ; mustered Dec. 29, 1863 ; died 
of disease Sept. 22, 1864. 

William H. Smart, 18, Abbot, s ; mustered Dec. 22, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal Sept. i, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides 
at Holliston, Mass. 

George Smith, 19, Appleton, s ; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; wounded 
May 19, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Appleton, Me. 

Wentworth Staples, 22, Lee, s ; mustered Nov. 28, 1863 ; wounded 
May 19, 1864; deserted July 10, 1864. Resides at Lincoln, Me. 

Henry W. Stearns, 18, Lovell, s ; mustered Dec. 29, 1863 ; wounded 
May 19, June 2 and June 18, 1864; discharged May 4, 1865. Resides 
at Audubon, la. 

Royal H. Strout, 18, Orneville, s; mustered Dec. 22, 1863; died 
June 7, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Lewis A. Sturtevant, 18, Caribou, s; mustered Dec. 29, 1863; died 
June 23, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Domingo C. Thompson, 26, Trenton, s; mustered Dec. 26, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864 ; transferred to the V. R. C. and discharged 
therefrom in the summer of 1865. 



,02 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

George G. Thompson, i8, Eddington, s; mustered Dec. 24. 1863 ; 
killed June 18, i86/|. 

Cleaves C. Tracy, 18, Hermon, s; mustered Dec. 5, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. ir, 1865. Resides at Wickford, 

R. I. 

Osborn Weeman, 25, Kenduskeag, m; mustered Dec. 19, 1863; 
wounded May 19, Oct. 27 and Nov. 27, 1864; discharged June 5, 1865. 
Res-des at Baldwin, Me. 

p:dvvard B. West, 18, Ellsworth, s; mustered Dec. 17, 1863; 
wounded March 31, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at 
Everett, Mass. 

David J. Whitney, 36, Stow, m; mustered Dec. 29, 1863; taken 
prisoner May 19, 1864; exchanged March, 1865 ; discharged Aug. 8, 
1865. Died at Stow, Me., Oct. 26, 1870. 

Amos A. Withee, 18, Etna, s ; mustered Dec. 27, 1863 ; killed June 
18, 1864. 

George S. Woodburv, 22, Eddington, m; mustered Dec. 23, 1863 ; 
died Aug. 30, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1 864. 

Captain Prince A. Gatchell, Lincoln, joined by transfer from Com- 
pany M Aug. 15, 1865; mustered out Sept. ir, 1865. Resides at 
Buffalo, Wyo. 

Second Lieut. George P. Pote, Belfast, joined by transfer from 
Field and Staff Nov. 8, 1864; promoted First Lieut. Dec. [3, 1864; 
discharged Aug. 21, 1865. Resides at Newton, Mass. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY F. 

COMPANY F. 

As Mustered Aug. 21, 1862. 



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Capt. ROSCOE F. IIERSEY. Capt. GEO. R. FERNALD. 

Brevet Colonel ROSCOE F. HERS FY. 

Joined as First Lieutenant from Bangor, promoted Captain March 
2, 1863. A student, son of Gen. Samuel F. Hersey one of Maine's 
most useful and prominent citizens, he brought to the service rare 
ability and generous loyalty. He was very active and enthusiastic for 
the welfare of Company F, became popular and much beloved by the 
men; was wounded at Spottsylvania, May 19, 1864; mustered out 
Oct. 29, 1864. He has since been a prominent citizen, lumberman 
and banker of St. Paul, Minn. Colonel Hersey would certainly have 
become prominent had he remained in service. 

Captain GEORGE R. FERNALD. 

Joined from Levant as Second Lieutenant. He was one of the 
solid men of the regiment from the start. Coming from rural pursuits 
his education beyond the public schools had been largely acquired in 
the university of life and was practical as it was useful. He never 
failed to do his best. He was zealous for the welfare of his men and 
intensely loyal to his country. He was promoted First Lieutenant 
March 2, 1863, and Captain Oct. 17, 1864 ; was in all the battles of the 



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regiment till wounded June i8. He returned in time for all the 
battles that followed. He did noble service in all. Since muster out 
he has been prominent in business, has filled many places of trust; 
has served in Maine House and Senate and in the Executive Council. 
Is a trustee of Maine Wesleyan Seminary and prominent in the 
Methodist Church and its work. 






Lieut. JOHN N. BATCH ELDER, 



Lieut. JOHN A. LANCY. 



First Lieujenant JOHN N. BATCHELDER. 

Lieutenant Batchelder joined from Hampden as Sergeant, promoted 
to Second lieutenant Jan. i8, 1864, First Lieutenant, Dec. 13, 1864. 
He participated in all the service and marches and battles of the regi- 
ment, was wounded at Sailors Creek, April 6, 1865 ; mustered out May 
15, 1865. Since the war he has been mostly in the service of the 
customs department of the United States. Resides at Boston. 



First Lieutenant JOHN A. LANCY. 

Lieutenant Lancy, joined the Field and Staff as Sergeant-Major. 
He had seen considerable service with the 2d Maine Infantry; was 
useful in organizing and drilling ihe different companies of the regi- 
ment, was cheerful and obliging in his official capacity, was in all 
the service and engagements of the regiment to June 18, 1864. when 
he wass everely wounded. The \\riter will never forget ihe finding of 
this officer at the division hospital, with five or six severe wounds 
bleeding at all of them. He was still courageous, hopeful, and making 



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the best of his small chance for recovery. He resides at Everett, 
Mass., where he has been a usefuKcitizen, a prosperous and prominent 
business man. 





Lieut. STEPHEN G. \YALDRON. 



Lieut. GARDNER A. RUGGLES. 



Second Lieutenant GARDNER H. RUGGLES. 

Lieutenant Gardner H. Ruggles joined from Carmel as Sergeant; 
promoted to First Sergeant Jan. 28, 1863, Second Lieutenant Jan. 
18, 1864. He was a royal young man of spotless character, exemplary 
life and rare ability He discharged every duty with intelligence and 
fidelity ; was keenly alive to the interests of his company, loyal to his 
friends, respectful and obedient to superiors. In the presence of the 
enemy he was cool, unflinching and heroic. He was in all the actions 
with his regiment until struck down in the charge of June 18, 1864, 
His untimely death caused great sorrow to the writer, as it did to all 
his companions. 



Second Lieutenant STEPHEN G. WALDRON. 

Lieutenant Waldron joined as private from Hampden ; promoted 
Corporal Oct. 22, 1862; Sergeant Feb. 8, 1864, Second Lieutenant 
Feb. 9, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864. He was a young man of 
excellent character, sterling integrity, brave and reliable, in or out of 
danger. Did conscientious duty at all times and was highly respected 
by the men and superior ofificers of the company. He resides in 
Bangor. 



306 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Commissioned Officers. 

Capt. Lorenzo Hinckley, 47, Hampden, m ; discharged Feb. 28, 
1863. Died at Bangor, Me., June 20, 1885. 

First Lieutenant Roscoe Y. Hersey, 21, Bangor, s; promoted Cap- 
tain March 2, 1863 ; wounded May 19. 1864 ; breveted Colonel ; dis- 
charged Oct. 29, 1864. Resides at St. Paul, Minn. 

Second Lieutenant George R. Fernald, 27, Levant, s ; promoted First 
Lieutenant March 2, 1863, Captain Oct. 17, 1864; wounded June 
18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Wilton, Me. 

Sergeants. 

Horace H. Shaw, 20, Hampden, s ; promoted Second Lieutenant 
March 2, 1863, First Lieutenant Jan. 18, 1864 ; commissioned Captain 
Oct. 17, 1864; not mustered; wounded May 19, 1864; Aide on 
Brigade Staff October, 1863; Quartermaster July, 1864; Acting 
Division Quartermaster to May, 1865 ; Acting Brigade Quartermaster 
May 30, 1865, to muster out at Fort Baker Sept. 11, 1865. Resides 
at Portland, Me. 

Gardner H. Ruggles, 2 I, Carmel,s; promoted First Sergeant Feb. 
28, 1863, Second Lieutenant Jan. 18, 1864; wounded May 19, 
1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

John N. Batchelder, 26, Hampden, m; promoted Second Lieu- 
tenant Jan. 18, 1864; First Lieutenant Dec. 13, 1864; wounded April 
6, 1865 ; discharged May 15, 1865. Resides at Boston, Mass. 

Horatio N. P. Spooner, 27, Levant, m ; promoted First Lieutenant 
Company L Jan. 25, 1864 ^^^ transferred. See Company L. 

Luther K. Patten, 30, Hermon, m ; promoted Quartermaster- 
Sergeant Jan. 23, 1864, First Sergeant Aug. 3, 1864; wounded May 19, 
1864; taken prisoner Dec. 8, 1864 ; paroled Jan. 8, 1865 ; mustered 
out Sept. 1 1, 1865. 

Co7porals. 

Mark T. Emerson, 29, Hermon, m ; promoted Sergeant ; died July 
5, 1864, of wounds received June 17. 

Nathan Emerson, Jr., 39, Hampden, m; promoted Sergeant Feb. 
28, 1863 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Hampden, Me. 

William M. Stevenson, 21, Hampden, s; promoted Sergeant; died 
June 23, 1864, of wounds leceived May 19. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY F. 307 

James A. Dole, 19, Bangor, s; promoted Sergeant Jan. i, 1864, 
First Sergeant Jan. 23, 1864, Second Lieutenant July 27, 1864; 
wounded May 19, and June 18, 1864; promoted First Lieutenant 
Company D Dec. 13, 1864, and transferred. See Company D. 

Charles E. Perkins, 22, Bradley, m; discharged Oct. 22, 1862. 
Resides at Bangor, Me. 

James C. Gray, 21, Etna, s; promoted Sergeant; killed June 18, 
1864. 

George E. Dodge, 24, Carmel, s ; promoted First Sergeant Company 
L Feb. I, 1864, and transferred. See Company L. 

Asa T. Wing, 25, Levant, m ; promoted Sergeant Feb. i, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged Dec. i, 1864. Died at Old 
Town, Me. 

Musicians. 

Amos W. Towmbly, 21, Levant, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Levant, Me. 

Andrew C. Sawyer, 18, Levant, s; promoted Principal Musician, 
Nov. I, 1864, and transferred. See Field and Staff. 

Wagoner. 

Lafayette Brown, 36, Hermon, m ; wounded May 19, 1864 ; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., April 15, 1896. 

Privates. 

Bradley W. Abbot, 32, Etna, m ; promoted Corporal, Jan. r, 1864 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. Feb. 13, 1865, 
and discharged therefrom July 14, 1865. Died at Plymouth, Me., 
March 23, 1903. 

Joseph Appleton, 44, Carmel, m; wounded June. 22, 1864; dis- 
charged April 22, 1865. Died at Etna, Me. 

David W. Barrett, 30, Hermon, m; wounded May 19, 1864; tran^- 
ferred to the V. R. C. and discharged therefrom July 10, 1865. 

Alhson Blackden, 18, Carmel, s; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged April 28, 1865. Died at Spring- 
field, Penn., March 22, 1882. 

Goff M. Blackden, 21, Carmel, s; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged May I, 1865. Resides at South Etna, Me. 

John W. Blake, 21, Carmel, s; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 1864, Ser- 
geant, July I, 1864, Commissary Sergeant, Nov. I, 1864 ; wounded May, 



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19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at West Falmouth, 

Me. 

Jacob R. Bowen, 41, Hermon, m; appointed Musician, Nov. i, 
1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Hermon, Me., Oct. 21, 

1873- 

Peleg Bradford, Jr., 19 Carmel, s; wounded June 17, 1864; dis- 
charged Dec. 18, 1864. Resides at Carmel, Me. 

Darius G. Brown, 24, Argyle, s ; killed May 19, 1864. 

Eugene Burrill, 23, Carmel, s; killed June 18, 1864. 

George F. Bussell, 20, Argyle, s; died of disease, Jan. 22, 1865. 

John G. Carter, 44, Etna, m; discharged Oct. 13, 1863. Died at 
Etna, Me., Nov. 14, 1891. 

Joseph Carter, 21, Etna, s; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged 
March 7, 1865. Resides at Etna, Me. 

Fred A. Chamberlain, 21, Bangor, s; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 
1864, Sergeant in 1864; wounded June 3 and Oct. 2, 1864; dis- 
charged March 15, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., Nov. 30, 1884. 

Charles R. Clark, 19, Hermon, s; killed May 19, 1864. 

Frederick L. Clark, 19, Levant, s; wounded May 19, 1864; trans- 
ferred to the V. R. C. Jan. 7, 1865. Died at Degger, Cal., January, 
1901. 

Levi Corson, Jr., 37, Levant, m; discharged April 28, 1865. 

Ransom C. Dodge, 24, Bradley, m ; died June 29, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

Ephraim K. Drew, 23, Hermon, s; wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at South Penobscot, Me. 

Sylvester Drew, 28, Hermon, m ; appointed Artificer ; died May 28, 
1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Robert C. Dunaff, 24, Argyle, s; wounded June 18, 1864 ; discharged 
March 20, 1865. Resides at Porter's Corner, Saratoga County, N. Y. 

Otis W. Ellis, 40, Levant, m ; wounded May 19, 1864; died of dis- 
ease Jan. 23, 1865. 

Charles H. Fitzgerald, 26, Canaan, s ; wounded, date unknown ; dis- 
charged July 15, 1865. 

Harrison C. Friend, 21, Etna, s; died Aug. 9, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

Robert Fulton, Jr., 20, Bangor, s ; discharged April 12, 1864. Died 
at Bangor, Me., June 7, 1901. 

George E. Oilman, 20, Levant, s; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 1864, 



RECORDS OF COMPANY F. 309 

Sergeant Aug. 3, 1864 ; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 
1865. 

James Goodell, Jr , 28, Hampden, ni ; promoted Corporal Feb. 28, 
1863, Sergeant July, i, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged 
Dec. 6, 1864; Resides at South Etna, Me. 

Orrington Gowen, 26, Hampden, m; wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Clifton, Me. 

Stephen Grant, 23, Argyle, s ; discharged Jan. 25, 1864 Resides at 
Argyle, Me. 

William T. Gray, 31, Bradley, m ; died ot disease Ftb. 21, 1864. 

Frederick T. Hall, 21, Hampden, s; promoted Corporal March i, 
1865 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Nathan D. Hanson, 18, Bangor, s; killed June 18, 1864. 

Amos E. Hardy, 19, Hampden, s ; wounded May 19 and Oct. 2, 
1864; discharged Aug. 30, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Cyrus Heard, 18, Carmel, s; wounded June 18, 1864 ; transferred to 
V, R. C. Feb. 13, 1865, and discharged therefrom July 20, 1865. 
Resides at Carmel, Me. 

John Heard, 44, Carmel, m ; wounded Aug. 18, 1864; discharged 
July 5, 1865. Resides at Carmel, Me. 

Orrin Houston, 18, Levant, s; promoted Corporal Nov. 12, 1864, 
Sergeant April i, 1865 '■> wounded May 19, 1864, and March 25, 1865 ; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Levant, Me. 

Francis E. Joy, 21, Hampden, s ; wounded May 19, 1864 ; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Resides at Stillwater, Minn. 

John H. Kelley, 21, Bangor, s; promoted Corporal Aug. 3, 1864; 
wounded Aug. 18, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Andrew S. Knight, 28, Carmel, m ; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged June 13, 1865. Resides at Macwahoc, Me. 

David A. Legrow, 26, Levant, m; wounded May 19, 1864, and 
April 6, 1865 ; discharged June 13, 1865. 

Charles H. Maddocks, 20, Hermon, s; wounded May 19, 1864; 
died Oct. 27, 1864, ^f wounds received Oct. 2. 

Thomas L. May, 18. Levant, s; killed May 19, 1864. 

Thomas Miller, 43, Hermon, m; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died 
at Charleston, Me., April 7, 1891. 

Samuel H. Nason, 28, Bradley, m; died July 4, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

George J. Nickerson, 23, Hampden, s; promoted Corporal Nov. t, 



3IO THE FIRST MAINE HEAA^Y ARTILLERY. 

1864, Sergeant March i, 1865; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. 

Alonzo A. Orr, 20, Arygle, s; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. and discharged 
therefrom April 11, 1865. Died at Orono, Me., March 2, 1895. 

Andrew Patterson, 18, Hampden, s; killed May 19, 1864. 

Peter Patterson, 44, Carmel, m ; wounded May 19, 1864 ; dis- 
charged May 30, 1865. Died at Hudson, Me., Sept. 12, 1892. 

Samuel Pomroy, 44, Hermon, m ; transferred to the V. R. C. Nov. 4, 
1864, and discharged therefrom April 28, 1865. Died at Hermon, Me. 

Daniel P. Raymond, 24, Etna, m ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; died 
of disease Feb. 21,1865. 

Charles F. Read, 21, Levant, s; wounded June 17, 1864; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Resides at Levant, Me. 

James J. Reeves, 25, Hermon, m; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged Dec. 3, 1864. Resides at Bradford, Me. 

George L. Robinson, 44, Carmel, m ; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Carmel, Me. 

Seldin Rogers, 19, Carmel, s; wounded May 19, 1864; died Aug. 
6, 1864 of wounds received June 18. 

Harvey Sawyer, 23, Hampden, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died 
at Brewer, Me., Jan. i, 1892. 

Stephen S. Sawyer, 22, Hampden, s; promoted Corporal July i, 
1864, Sergeant Jan. i, 1865; wounded June 18 and Aug. 18, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Brewer, Me. 

Charles J. Small, 26, Bangor, m; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Alphonzo Smith, 27, Hampden, s; died May 20, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

Avandah Smith, 21, Carmel, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Charles B. Smith, 20, Brewer, s ; wounded May 19, 1864 ; discharged 
May 25, 1865. Resides at Rockport, Me. 

Charles O. Smith, 32, Bradley, m ; discharged June 8, 1865. Died 
at Auburn Me., Sept. 3, 1890 

John W. Smith, 19, Hampden, s; wounded May 19 and June 18, 
1864; discharged Aug. 21, 1865. besides at Portland, Me. 

Francis H. Snow, 23, Hampden, s; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged Jan. 19, 1865. Resides at Hampden, Me. 

Samuel Snow, 19 Hermon, s; killed May 19, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY F. 3II 

Chauncey Spearen, Jr., 20, Sebec, s; discharged Jan. 25, 1864. 

Josiah Staples, 21, Carmel, s ; killed June 18, 1864. 

Daniel R. Stevenson, 26, Hampden, m ; promoted Corporal Feb. 8, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged Feb. 20, 1865. Died at 
Bradley, Me., March 9, 1895. 

Lowell M. Stevenson, 18, Hampden, s ; wounded May 19, 1864; 
transferred to the V. R. C. Oct. 22, 1864, ^^^ discharged therefrom 
June 26, 1865. Died at Brighton, Mass., Oct. 9, 1893. 

Edwin K. Stuart, 19, Etna, s ; promoted Corporal Feb. i, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged March 30, 1865. Died at 
Veazie, Me., Nov. 15, 1896. 

Robert Swan, 27, Hermon, s ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides 
at Hermon, Me. 

William J. Temple, 18, Hampden, s ; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 
1865; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Hampden, Me. 

Arunah Tracy, 18, Carmel, s; promoted Corporal Feb. i, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged Dec. 16, 1864. Died at Wash- 
ington, D. C, July 18, 1897. 

Martin V. Tripp, 25, Carmel, m; promoted Artificer, Nov. 12, 
1864; wounded June iS, 1864, and March 25, 1865; mustered out 
June 6, 1865. Resides at Apopka, Orange County, Florida. 

Joshua W. Tuesley, 22, Hermon, m; promoted Hospital Steward 
March 18, 1864, and transferred. See Field and Staff. 

James Turner, Jr., 35, Levant, m; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged Jan. 19, 1865. Died at Levant, Me., March 2, 1871. 

Edward C. Tuttle, 23, Bangor, m ; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 1864, 
Sergeant July 6, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged Nov. 9, 
1864. Died at Lewiston, Me., Sept. 17, 1876. 

Stephen G. Waldron, 24, Hampden, s ; promoted Corporal Oct. 22, 
1862, Sergeant Feb. 8, 1864, Second Lieutenant Feb. 9, 1865 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged July 25, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Hezekiah Whitcomb, 44, Hampden, m; wounded May 19, 1864; 
transferred to the Y. R. C. April 25, 1865, and discharged therefrom 
Aug. 21, 1865. 

Simeon C. Whitcomb, 18, Hampden, s ; promoted Corporal July 6, 
1864, Sergeant Jan. t, 1865, wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out 
June 6, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Oliver Wiley, 31, Hampden, m ; wounded May 19, 1864 ; discharged 
June 5, 1865. Dic^d at Exeter, Me., Jan. 18, 1885. 



212 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Altheus O. Wing, 25, Levant, m ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; discharged 
Aug. 21, 1865. Resides at Levant, Me. 

Abijah T. Young, 27, Etna, m ; died May 20, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1862. 

Orville J. Dorman, 19, Hermon, s; mustered Feb. 23, 1863; Pro- 
moted Corporal May 26, 1865; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered 
out Sept. II. 1865. Resides at Detroit, Me. 

Loomis J. Felker, 18, Carmel, s; mustered April 13, 1863; killed 
March 25, 1865. 

Michael Ford, 21, Skowhegan, s ; mustered May 1 1, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged May 13, 1865. Died at Togas, Me., Oct. 
4, 1902. 

Henry Lord (real name James McLand), 21, Dexter, s; mustered 
April 17, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged Feb. 5, 1865. 
Resides at Marion, la. 

Otis H. Manter, 25, Carmel, m ; mustered April 3, 1863 ; promoted 
Artificer Jan. i, 1864 I mustered out Sept. 1 1, 1865. Died at Stetson, 
Me., Nov. 1 1, 1871. 

James F. McKeller, 20, Rockland, s ; mustered April 8, 1863 ; pro- 
moted Corporal Feb. 8, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged 
Oct. 24, 1864. 

John F. Montgomery, 18, Bangor, s; mustered Dec. 15, 1862-; 
wounded June 18, 1864 ; discharged May 30, 1865. Died at Bangor, 
Me., March 21, 1894. 

Frank Voyer, 18, Skowhegan, s ; mustered May 11, 1863 ; killed May 
19, 1864. 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, I 863. 

Sanford Annis, 26, Hermon, m; mustered Dec. 8, 1863; wounded 
Oct. 27, 1864; discharged April 27, 1865. Resides at Hampden, Me. 

Llewellyn A. Appleton, 18, Carmel, s ; mustered Nov. 3, 1863; dis- 
charged May II, 1865. 

Franklin C. Barwise, 39, Brewer, m; mustered Nov. 17, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Richard L. Beede, 21, Levant, s; mustered Nov. 30, 1863; died 
of disease Feb. 15, 1864. 

John H. Bell, 21, Garland, m; mustered Oct. 3, 1864; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Resides at West Cleveland, Ohio. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY F. 313 

Corydon C. Blackden, 32, Carmel, m ; mustered Dec. 29, 1863 ; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged Feb. 6, 1865. Died at Etna, 
Me., Jan. 16, 1900, 

James Booker, 23, Hermon, s; mustered Dec. 7, 1863; mustered 
out Sept II, 1865. Died at Dover, Me. 

Bartlett Bradford, 19, Carmel, s; mustered Oct. i, 1864; promoted 
Corporal March i, 1865 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at 
Carmel, Me. 

Owen D. Bradford, 18, Carmel, s; mustered Nov. 6, 1863; killed 
Oct. 2, 1864. 

Jefferson Chesley, 18, Crystal, s; mustered Dec. 2, 1863 ; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. Died at Summerfield, 111., March 21. 1874. 

Alvah M. Chick, 19, Dixmont, s; mustered Dec. 9, 1863; killed 
May 19, 1864. 

Augustus H. Corliss, 18, Carmel, s; mustered Nov. 3, 1863; died 
Aug. I, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Lorenzo T. Davis, 26, Carmel, m ; mustered Dec. i, 1863 ; pro- 
moted Corporal Sept. i, 1865; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. Resides at St. Albans, Me. 

John F. Drew, 29, Bangor, m ; mustered Dec. 7, 1863 ; died July 7, 
1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Aaron VV. Edgerly, 34, Kenduskeag, m ; mustered Nov. 7, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged March 7, 1865. Died at Ken- 
duskeag, Me., in 1882. 

David S. Farnham, 28, Carmel, m; mustered Nov. 29, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal; died of disease Dec. 17, 1864. 

Henry M. French, 27, Garland, m; mustered Sept. 28, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Dover, Me. 

Rufus H. Oilman, 41, Corinth, m ; mustered Dec. 9, 1863 ; died of 
disease July 24, 1865. 

Alonzo Goodwin, 29, Auburn, m ; mustered Dec. 14, 1863 ; 
appointed Musician June 7, 1865 : mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

Isaac VV. Grant, 26, Bangor, s; mustered Jan. 4, 1864; wounded 
May 19, 1864 ; discharged Jan. 30, 1865. 

John Hall, 38, Hermon, m ; mustered Dec. 3, 1863 ; drowned April 
23, 1865. 

Oliver P. Hodsdon, 36, Kenduskeag, m; mustered Nov. 17, 1863 ; 
taken prisoner Oct. 27, 1864; exchanged Feb. 25, 1865; died of 
disease March i, 1865. 



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Jacob B. Holmes, i8, Rockland, s; mustered Jan. ii, 1864; diedi 
June 7, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Edmund Jefferds, 25, Monroe, s; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; died, 
date unknown, of wounds received June 18, 1864. 

Charles W. Jones, 18, Harmony, s; mustered Nov. 21, 1863; died 
May 28, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

James O. Knowles, 29, Corinth, m; mustered Dec. 10, 1863; dis- 
charged April 29, 1865. Resides at Lynn, Mass. 

Charles Larrabee, 19, Monroe, s; mustered Dec. 8, 1863; died 
July 8, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Sewell Larrabee, 43, Monroe, m ; mustered Dec. 16, 1863 ; deserted 
May 2, 1864. Died at Jackson, Me., May, 1889. 

Isaac M. Lawry, 18, Winterport, s; mustered Dec. 14, 1863; 
wounded June 17, 1864; discharged May 17, 1865. Died in 1887. 

Eugene Lord, 18, Levant, s; mustered Nov. 30, 1863; died June 
23, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Warren Markes, 44, Brooksville, m ; mustered Dec. 28, 1863 ; dis- 
charged in February, 1864. 

Broadstreet Mason, 42, Monroe, m; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged Jan. 19, 1865. Died at Monroe, 
Me., in 1894. 

Levi K. Mayo, 19, Brewer, s ; mustered Nov. 16, 1863 ; died July 
I, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Harrison L. Mitchell, 45, Levant, m; mustered Nov. 25, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

John A. Morey, 31, Levant, m; mustered Nov. 28, 1863 ; died in 
the field, of exhaustion. May 30, 1864. 

Joseph Morse, 43, Searsport, m; mustered Dec. 18, 1863 ; wounded 
June 17, 1864 ; discharged March 27, 1865. Died^Feb. 15, 1881. 

John A. Murch, 21, Carmel, s; mustered Dec. 12, 1863 ; died of 
disease Feb. 21, 1864. 

Ambrose Nason, 18, Orono, s; mustered N(/.-. 12, 1863 ; wounded 
May 19, 1864; discharged in 1865. Resides at Lisbon Falls, Me. 

George J. Osborne, 36, Corinna, m; mustered Dec. 29, 1863 ; died 
of disease July 9, 1864. 

Ezra Pattee, 20, Monroe, s; mustered Dec. 12, 1863; wounded 
June 18, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. and discharged therefrom 
June 28, 1865. Died at Monroe, Me., Dec. 20, 1899. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY F. 



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Nathaniel D. Philbrook, 39, Bradford, s; mustered Dec. 14, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864 ; discharged Dec. 16, 1864. 
j Henry W. Pomroy, 36, Levant, m; mustered Nov. 30, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged Jan. 26, 1865. Drowned Aug. 
29, 1884, at Winterport, Me. 

Samuel E. Pray, 31, Palmyra, m; mustered Dec. 12, 1863; Pro- 
moted Corporal March i, 1865 ; wounded June 16 and August 18, 
1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Palmyra, Me. 

Benjamin P. Rendell, 19, Monroe, s; mastered Dec. 18, 1863; 
discharged June [, 1865. 

John L. Robinson, 44, Corinth, m ; mustered Jan. 2, 1864 ; wounded 
June iS, 1864; discharged May 4, 1865. Resides at Sibley, la. 

Charles E. Sawtelle, 19, Sidney, s; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; wounded 
June 17, 1864; discharged June 29, 1865. Resides at Haverhill, 
Mass. 

John VV. Shaw, iS, Winterport, s; mustered Dec. 14, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at 
Boston, Mass. 

Dennis Sherburn, 44, Corinna, m ; mustered Dec. 2, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged May 19, 1865. Died at Corinna, Me., 
Feb. 21, 1892. 

Hughs. Slcillin, 36, Garland, s ; mustered Sept. 28, 1864 ; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Died at Garland, Me, 

John D. Small, 31, Carmel, s ; mustered Sept. 28, 1864 ; discharged 
June 26, 1865 

George F. Stevens, 22, Guilford, s; mustered Dec. 31, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died at 
Guilford, Me., March 2, 1903. 

Samuel Stevens, 18, Guilford, s; mustered Dec. 3, 1863; dis- 
charged February, 1864. Resides atSangerville, xMe. 

Melvin S. Stevenson, 18, Hampden, s ; mustered Dec. 28, 1863 5 
promoted Corporal May i, 1865; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Hampden, Me. 

Henry F. Stubbs, 18, Hampden, s; mustered Nov. 3, 1863; died 
July 19, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

George W. Taylor, 20, Hermon, m; mustered Nov. 4, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

Rodney J. Taylor, 27, Bangor, m; mustered Nov. 21, 1863; died 
June 5, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 



3i6 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Gottfried Volmer, Washington, D. C, mustered April 9, 1864; 
deserted April 12, 1864. 

Albert A. Waterman, 27, Greenbush, m; mustered Nov. 16, 1863; 
discharged April 30, 1865. Resides at Appleton, Me. 

Grant Wentworth, 41. Orrington, m; mustered Jan. 4, 1864; died 
of disease July 19, 1864. 

James E. Wentworth, 25, Orrington, s; mustered Jan. i, 1864; pro- 
moted Corporal May i, 1865, Sergeant June 7, 1865; wounded May 
19, 1864 and April 6, 1865; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides 
at South Orrington, Me. 

Thomas Wentworth, 22, Orrington, m; mustered Jan. 8, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died Sept. 
15, 1874. 

Charles P. Wheeler, 22, Newport, s; mustered Dec. 12, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; died of disease Aug. 16, 1865. 

Henry C. Wheeler, 20, ])ixmont, s; mustered Dec. 9, 1.863; died 
of disease May 22, 1864. 

David B. Wiggin, 32, Levant, m; mustered Nov. 28, 1863; died 
June 8, 1864 of wounds received May 19. 

George A. York, 19, Hermon, m; mustered Dec. 3, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal Jan. i, 1865, Sergeant May 25, 1865 ; wounded May 
19, 1864 ; transferred to Company C June 6, 1865. See Company C. 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1 864. 

Commissioned Officers. 

First Lieutenant John A. Lancy, Bangor, joined by transfer from 
Company H Aug. 19, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at 
Everett, Mass. 

Enlisted Me ft. 

Herbert C. Arey, 18, Hampden, s; mustered March 6, 1865; 
wounded April 6, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died at Hamp- 
dem. Me., April 20, 1879. 

William K. Hanson, 22, Atkinson, mustered Dec. 17, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. Resides at East Corinth, Me. 

Edwin R. Maddocks, 35, Hermon, m; mustered March 8, 1865; 
mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY G. 317 

COMPANY G. 

As Mustered Aug. 21, 1862. 







Capt. SAMUEL A. COLBY. Capt. FREDERIC C. HOWES. 

Captain SAMUEL A. COLBY. 

Capt. Samuel A. Colby, joined as original Captain and organizer. 
Was a worthy citizen of Bucksport, prominent in local affairs. The 
climate and exposures of military life, speedily undermined and 
impaired his health, and he resigned Feb. 18, 1863. He lived, how- 
ever, for many years, retaining the respect and confidence of the 
people of his native town. 

Captain FREDERIC C. HOWES. 

Capt. Frederic C. Howes joined from Orland as First Lieutenant. 
Was a vigorous, inteligent, capable ofTicer. Was promoted to captain 
on the retirement of Captain Colby, and speedily made Company G 
one of the best and foremost companies in the regiment. He com- 
manded his company with rare ability and courage in all the battles 
until June 18, 1864, when he was killed. Captain Howes was much 
lamented by his comrades and a large circle of friends at home. 

Captain JAMES A. GODFREY. 
Capt. James A. Godfrey came from Ellsworth, joined as Orderly 
Sergeant. By his able and faithful performance of duty in this, the 



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Capt. JAMES A. GODFREY. 



Lieut. EMERY 8. WARD WELL. 



most arduous place in the company, he became amply prepared for the 
splendid service he afterwards rendered. He was promoted Second 
Lieutenant April lo, 1863, to First lieutenant the following January, 
and to Captain July 27, 1864, succeeding Captain Howes. He was 
wounded June 18, 1864, returned, and afterwards proved that the best 
place to educate an ofificer for hard service is in the field. He was 
mustered out with the regiment and died at Atco, N. Y., March 3, 
1878. 

First Lieutenant CHARLES J. HOUSE. 

Lieutenant House joined by transfer 

from Company C, to which company he 
had been transferred from Company E, 
where he had been steadily promoted 
for meritorious service. Receiving his 
education in the common schools, upon 
the farm and in the woods of Maine, 
his education was practical and useful 
He was rugged and hearty, well pre- 
pared for the life of a good soldier. He 
was wounded at Spottsylvania May 19, 
1864, and again June 18, 1864; was pro- 
moted to Second Lieutenant Company 
C Feb. 9, 1865, and transferred. Pro- 
moted First Lieutenant Company G and 




Lieut. CHARLES J. HOUSE. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY G. 319 

transferred. Was in ccmmand of post at Camp Stoneman, summer of 
1865. Has served as Private Secretary to the Governor, and for six- 
teen years has been employed in the office of Commissioner of Indus- 
trial and Labor Statistics, and resides in Augusta. Is Chairman of the 
Committee on History, and has compiled all the statistics and official 
records in this book. Major in Maine National Guard. 





Lieut. DANIEL O. BOWEN. Lieut. JAMES E. HALL. 

First Lieutenant DANIEL O. BOWENT. 

Lieutenant Daniel O. Bovven, was promoted and joined this com- 
pany as Second Lieutenant from Company L by transfer and was pro- 
moted to First Lieutenant April 25, 1865. He was a good soldier, a 
man of excellent character and habits, an officer of intelligence and 
good ability. He served the regiment as Quartermaster while the 
regular occupant of that office was serving the Division. He performed 
€very duty assigned to him in a most commendable manner. 

Second Lieutenant JAMES E. HALL. 

Lieutenant Hall joined as Sergeant from Bucksport, did excellent 
service, and must have shown rare ability, for during the absence of 
Quartermaster Pitcher, Lieutenant Hall was detailed to act as Quarter- 
master in his stead. Although doing camp duty for the time he served, 
he performed the arduous duties of that office in a satisfactory manner. 
The adjustment of the affairs detaining him sometime In Washington, 
he reached the regiment just in time to receive the fatal bullet in the 



220 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

charge of the i8th of June, 1864. He was a fine 'young officer, and 
his death was much regretted by his companions. 

Commissioned Officers. 

Captain Samuel A. Colby, 44, Bucksport, m; discharged Feb. 18, 
1863. 

First Lieutenant Frederic C. Howes, 26, Orland, m ; promoted 
Captain April 10, 1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

Second lieutenant Emery S. Wardwell, 27, Bucksport, m ; pro- 
moted First Lieutenant April 10, 1863; discharged July 11, 1864. 
Died at Bangor, Me., Feb. 11, 1897. 

Sergea?its. 

James A. Godfrey, 24, Ellsworth, s ; promoted Second Lieutenant 
April 10, 1863, First Lieutenant Jan. 21, 1864, Captain, July 27, 
1864; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died 
at Atco, N. Y., March 3, 1878. 

Hudson Saunders, 33, Orland, m ; promoted Second Lieutenant 
Jan. 21, 1864, First Lieutenant July 27, 1864; promoted Captain 
Company H March 23, 1865, and transferred. See Company H. 

Cyrus K. Bridges, 28, Penobscot, m; promoted First Sergeant July 
23, 1863, Second Lieutenant Jan. 21, 1864; promoted First Lieuten- 
ant Company M March 12, 1864, and transferred. See Company M. 

James E. Hall, 20, Bucksport, s ; promoted Second Lieutenant 
March 23, 1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

George A. Wheeler, 25, Presque Isle, s; promoted Assistant Sur- 
geon of United States Volunteers Oct. 22, 1862, and transferred. 
Resides at Castine, Me. 

Corporals. 

George W. Carr, 40, Bucksport, m; promoted Sergeant Oct. 22, 
1862 ; died July 10, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Lewis M. Page, 22, Bucksport, s ; promoted Sergeant Jan. 14, 1864, 
First Sergeant Nov. i, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged 
June 8, 1865. 

Woodman C. Huntoon, 35, Dedham, m; wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged May 2, 1865. Died at Stockton Springs, "Me., Jan. 9, 1893. 

Albert Leach, 23, Penobscot, m; promoted Sergeant; killed June 
18, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY G. 32 1 

Sewall T. Douglass, .25, Orland, ra ; promoted Sergeant July 3, 
1863, First Sergeant January, 1864, Second Lieutenant July 27, 1864 ; 
not mustered ; died Sept. 25, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Lorenzo D. Perkins, 22, Penobscot, s; promoted Sergeant and 
First Sergeant; wounded June 18, T864 ; killed Oct. 27, 1864. 

Joel K. Grant, 18, Bucksport, s; promoted Sergeant; killed June 
18, 1864. 

James A. Ripley, 24, Orland, m; promoted Sergeant April 25, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged May 5, 1865. Died at 
Orland, Me., Oct. lo, 1883. 

MusiciaJis. 

Doane B. Colcord, 20, Bucksport, s ; transferred to the Signal Corps 
Dec. 23, 1863. 

James A. Smith, ^tZ'^ Bucksport, m; taken prisoner Sept. 9, 1864; 
died in prison March 2, 1865. 

Wagoner. 

John B. McCaslin, 37, Penobscot, m; died June 22, 1864, of 
wounds received June 18. 

Privates. 

Augustus E. Aiken, 38, Bucksport. s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Bucksport, Me. 

Simeon E. Allen, 19, Brooksville, s; died July 31, 1864, o^ wounds 
received June 18. 

John Ames, 20, Orland, s; promoted Corporal Jan. 14, 1864; Color 
Bearer ; taken prisoner June 22, 1864 i exchanged Feb. 27, 1865 ; dis- 
charged June 20, 1865. Resides at Orland, Me. 

James Anderson, 28, Aurora, s; deserted Aug. 24, 1862. 

Asa Batchelder, 27, Levant, s : slightly wounded May 19 and June 
18, 1864; taken prisoner Sept. 9, 1864; exchanged March 19, 1865 ; 
discharged July 2E, 1865. 

Otis B. Bates, 20, Dedham, s ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died 
in 1887. 

William H. Betts, 19, Hampden, s; killed June 18, 1864. 

Elliot F. Blood, 18, Bucksport, s; died of disease Oct. 29, 1862. 

Charles E. Bonsey, 21, Surry, s; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged April 26, 1865. Resides at Bucksport, Me. 

George A. Bonsey, 29, Surry, m; killed May 19, 1864. 



322 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Nelson Bridges, 39, Penobscot, m ; promoted Coporal Oct. 22, 
1862; Sergeant, Second Lieutenant July 27, 1864 ; not mustered ; died 
of disease Oct. 20, 1864. 

Norman S. Brown, 19, Orland, s ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Died at sea. 

Lyman Carley, 21, Prospect, s; killed June 18, 1864. 

Alfred Condon, 25, Dedham, s; appointed Musician Oct. 31, 1864; 
discharged Sept. 29, 1865. Resides at Holden, Me. 

John B. Craig, 27, Orland, s; wounded June 18, 1864 and April 
6, 1865 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Bucksport, Me. 

Joseph M. Currier, 28, Eden, m ; promoted Corporal Jan. 14, 1864 ; 
Sergeant Sept. i, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 
6, 1865. Resides at Rockland, Me. 

Aaron B. Davis, 24, Bucksport, s ; transferred to the Navy April 13, 
1864, and discharged therefrom Oct. 3, 1865. Resides at Orland, Me. 

Samuel T. Davis, 22, Bucksport, s; wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Died at Bucksport, Me., March 5, 1866. 

Kenney Depray, 19, Bucksport, s; taken prisoner May 19, 1864; 
died in prison ; never heard from. 

David L. Dodge, 28, Orland, m ; wounded May 19, 1864 ; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Resides at Orrington Centre, Me. 

John S. Dorr, 41, Aurora, s; promoted Corporal Sept. i, 1864; 
Sergeant Oct. i, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Aurora, 
Me., Oct. II, 1895. 

Isaac J. Dunham, 18, Winterport, s; promoted Corporal, Sergeant, 
Commissary Sergeant Sept. i, 1864; Second Lieutenant Nov. 8, 1864; 
wounded June 16, 1864; promoted First Lieutenant Company H Feb. 
9, 1865, and transferred. See Company H. 

Samuel R. Dunham, 38, Orland, m; discharged May 31, 1865. 
Resides at Bucksport, Me. 

Harry L. Eldridge, 23, Bucksport, s; promoted Corporal March 
I, 1864; discharged Sept. 18, 1865. Resides at Brown's Valley, 
Minn. 

Stephen D. Eldridge, 31, Bucksport, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Dedham, Me., June 29, 1895. 

Wilbur H. Eldridge, 21, Bucksport, s; wounded March 25, 1865; 
discharged June 21, 1865. 

Roscoe G. Emerson, 28, Bucksport, m; transferred to the Navy 
April 13, 1864. Died at Togus, Me., April 2, 1901. 



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323 



James S. Floyd, 25, Bucksport, m ; given three years' penal servitude 
at Fort Delaware and a dishonorable discharge for desertion. 

Charles W. Fogg, 20, Bucksport, m ; deserted March 24, 1864. 

Charles H. Frazier, 19, Ellsworth, s ; promoted Corporal Dec. 20, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides 
at Lynn, Mass. 

Floriman D. Furbish, 20, Bangor, s ; wounded May 19 and June 
.18, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. Nov. 27, 1864, and discharged 
therefrom June 17, 1865. Died at Fairfield, Me., April 27, 1886. 

Howard M. Gilley, 18, Tremont, s; wounded June 18, 1864; trans- 
ferred to the V. R. C. and discharged therefrom June 28, 1865. 
Resides at Green's Landin;3r^ Me. 

Stephen M. Gilley, 33, Tremont, m; discharged March 9, 1863. 
Resides at South West Harbor, Me. 

John E. Ginn, 20, Orland, s; promoted Corporal Sept. i, 1864, 
Sergeant Nov. 22, 1864 ; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 
6, 1865. Resides at Dedham, Me. 

Charles W. Gray, 18, Penobsco', s; killed May 19, 1864. 

Josiah Gray, 25, Orland. m; discharged Dec. 22, 1862. Resides at 
Manchester, Me. 

William C. Green, 18, Surry, s; killed June 18, 1864. 

Kenney S. Grindell, 21, Brooksville, s ; transferred to the Navy April 
13, 1864. Resides at South Brooksville, Me. 

Hezekiah E. Gross, 22, Orland, m; discharged Nov. 20, 1862. 

Nathan E. Gross, 25, Orland, m ; killed June 18, 1864. 

Freeman S. Hancock, 21, Bucksport, s; killed Oct. 27, 1864. 

Elisha G. Hatch, 23, Penobscot, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Penobscot, Me. 

John F. Haynes, 18, Bucksport, s; died July 22, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

Charles L. Heywood, 19, Bucksport. s ; promoted Corporal Sept. 
I, 1864; wounded June 18, 1S64; promoted Sergeant Major Dec. i, 
1864, and transferred. See Field and Staff. 

Edwin P. Hill, 18, Bucksport, s; wounded June 4, 186^^ ; discharged 
June 16, 1865. Died at Boston, Mass., Jan. 20, 1896. 

Thomas A. Hodgdon, 18, Tremont, s; transferred to the Navy 
April 13, 1864. 

Vinal F. Hooper, 18, Orland, s ; promoted Corporal Dec. 20, 1864 ; 
mustered out June 6, 1S65. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 



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THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



George W. Hutchins, 22, Penobscot, s ; promoted Corporal Jan. 14, 
1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Wesley H. Hutchins, 20, Penobscot, s; died of disease Sept. 15, 
1862. 

Charles A. Jackson, 19, Bucksport, s; promoted Corporal July 3, 
1863; taken prisoner June 22, 1864; exchanged Nov. 25, 1864; 
died of disease Dec. 13, 1864. 

Wilham VV. Johnson, 26, Bucksport, s ; died of disease July 8, 1864. 

Isaac M. Kenney, 22, Orland, m; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Abbot Village, Me. 

Francis C. Leach, 28, Penobscot, s; discharged Feb. 24, 1863. 
Died Feb. 22, 1888. 

Francis N. Leach, 29, Penobscot, s; died June 26, 1864, of 
wounds received June 18. 

Obed Leach, 39, Penobscot, m ; wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged April 22, 1865. Died at Penobscot, Me., Sept. 19, 1893. 

Uriah B. Leach, 33, Penobscot, m ; taken prisoner June 22, 1864; 
exchanged Nov. 25, 1864; discharged June 20, 1865. ^^^^ ^^ 
Penobscot, Me., March 24, 1902. 

John S. Leathers, 37, Carmel, m; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died June 7, 1890. 

James W. Lunt, 19. Orland, s; wounded June 18, 1864; killed 
Sept. 18, 1864. 

Gilbert L. Lurvey, 20, Tremont, s; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged Jan. 21, 1865. Resides at South West Harbor, Me. 

Arthur McGlauthry, 35, Bucksport, m; transferred to the Navy 
April 13, 1864. Resides at Bucksport, Me. 

Jacob McKenney, 39, Stetson, m; transferred to the Navy April 13, 
1864, and discharged therefrom Oct. 3, 1865. 

Daniel W. Manley, 32, Tremont, m ; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

John Marsh, 38, Bucksport, m ; wounded June 18, T864 ; discharged 
March 27, 1865. Died at Bucksport, Me., Aug. 12, 1871. 

Daniel A. Mead, 35, Orland, m; died of disease Nov. 6, 1862 

Cornelius Meehan, 20, Hampden, s; wounded June i8, 1864; 
discharged June i, 1S65. 

Ellis Meehan, 19, Hampden, s ; died of disease Sept. 28, 1862. 

Franklin W. Morgan, 21, Surry, s ; transferred to the Navy April 13, 
1S65. Died at Surry, Me., June 22, 1900. 

John Murphy, 19, Bucksport, s; promoted Corporal Dec. 24, 1864; 



RECORDS OF COMPANY G. 



325 



wounded May 19, 1864 and April 7, 1865 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Swanville, Me., Dec. 4, 1896. 

Richard C. Myrick, 22, Palmyra, s; discharged June 8, 1865. 
Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Rufus P. Peaks, 23, Dedham, s ; promoted Corporal Jan. 14, 1864, 
Sergeant Sept. i, 1864; wounded June 18,1864; mustered out June 
6, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., Dec. 3, 1902. 

Francis M. Perkins, 30, Penobscot, m ; died of disease Oct. 27, 
1862. 

Charles Prue, 19, Bucksport, m ; killed May 19, 1S64. 

Saiiiuel B. Saun d e , Orland, m; died of disease, Dec. 6, 1862.' 

George L. Stover, 18, Bucksport, s ; promoted Corporal ; killed June 
16, 1864. 

Fred Swett, 25, Bucksport, s; appointed Musician Feb. 29, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Mansfield, Mass. 

Charles D. Tirrill, 18, Holden, s ; taken prisoner May 31, 1864, 
exchanged Nov. 20, 1864; discharged Oct. 4, 1865. 

Joseph Uhr, 24, Dedham, m; killed June 18, 1864. 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1862. 

Nathan E. Burton, i8, Bucksport, s; mustered Feb. 12, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died at 
Seattle, Wash., in 1900. 

Daniel Davis, 22, Orland, s; mustered Feb. 19, 1863; wounded 
June 16, 1864; discharged Sept. 13, 1865. Resides at Bucksport, 
Me. 

Ezra H. Dodge, 19, Tremont, s ; mustered March 5, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal, Sept. i, 1865; wounded June 18, 1864; naustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. Died at Tremont, Me., Oct. 24, 1882 

Thomas E. Dodge, 18, Tremont, m ; mustered March 5, 1863 ; pro- 
moted Corporal Jan. 14, 1864; wounded June 17, 1864; discharged 
Feb. 17. 1865. Resides at Augusta, Me. 

Willard S. Dow, 18, Tremont, s; mustered March, 1S63; pro- 
moted Corporal Dec. 20, 1S64, Sergeant June 8, 1865 ; mustered out 
Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Surry, Me. 

Charles B. Gilley, 21, Tremont, s; mustered March 5, 1863; 
wounded June 18 and June 22, 1864; discharged March 20, 1865. 

Benjamin F. Godfrey, 18, Tremont, s; mustered March 5, 1863; 
promoted Corporal Sept. i, 1864, Commissary Sergeant Dec. 20, 1864, 



326 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

First Sergeant June 8, 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides 
at East Cambridge, Mass. 

George P. Hooper, 18, Bucksport, s ; mustered Feb. 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal Sept. i, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; mustered out 
Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Bucksport, Me. 

John M. Houston, 21, Bucksport, s; mustered Feb. 12, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864, mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at 
Dedham, Me. 

George W. Kenney, 21, Bucksport, s; mustered Dec. 30, 1862; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 6, 1865. Resides at Ells- 
Worth, Me. 

Roscoe G. Lopaus, 18, Tremont, s; mustered March 5, 1863; 
transferred to the Navy May 2, 1864. Resides at Brooklin, Me. 

Dennis C. McCabe, 18, Bucksport, s; mustered March 6, 1863; 
transferred to the Navy May 2, 1864. Died at Bucksport, Me., Aug. 
20, 1872. 

Udolph MilHken, 19, Tremont, s; mustered March 6, 1863 ; trans- 
ferred to the Navy April 13, 1864. Died at sea. 

Preston A. Rich, 20, Tremont, s; mustered March 6, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal, Sergeant Sept. i, 1864; discharged May 8, 1865. 
Died at Brewer, Me., March 2, 1900. 

Jeremiah Saunders, 29, Orland, s; mustered Feb. 12, 1863; trans- 
ferred to the Navy May 2, 1864. 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1863. 

Timothy C. Atkinson, 35, Guilford, m; mustered Dec. 15, 1863; 
died May 30, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Daniel Austin, 39, Parkman, m; mustered Dec. 22, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged April 5, 1865. Died at Lewiston, Me., 
March 27, 1884. 

Benjamin F. Babbidge, 26, Winterport, m; mustered Dec. 24, 
1863; discharged Sept. 20, 1865. 

Joseph M. Batchelder, 37, Foxcroft, m; mustered Dec. 26, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged Jan. 2, 1865. Died at Foxcroft, 
Me. 

Alonzo Bolds, 22, Belfast, s; mustered Jan. 7, 1864; transferred to 
the Navy April 13, 1864. Resides at Boston, Mass. 

Edward L. Bowden, 18, Castine, s; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; dis- 
charged July 15, 1865. Died at Castine, Me., Sept. 26, 1865. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY G. 327" 

Addison M. Bragg, 40, Corinth, m; mustered Dec. 15, 1863; 
detailed as Musician; discharged June 16, 1865. Died at East 
Corinth, Me., April 26, 1902. 

Rufus N. Brown, 25, Swanville, s; mustered Dec. 22, 1863; 
wounded June 16, 1864; mustered out, Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at 
Swanville, Me. 

Jacob L. Cain, Jr., 23, Liberty, s; mustered Dec. 21, 1863; died 
Aug. 6, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Henry W. Casey, T)^, Carmel, m; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal Sept. t, 1865 > wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out 
Sept. II, 1865. Died at Bangor, Me., Jan. 9, 1896. 

John C. Chandler, 25, Winthrop, s; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; died 
July I, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

George P.Clark, 28, Surry, m; mustered Dec. 18, 1863; promoted 
Corporal Dec. 20, 1864, Sergeant, 1865, Commissary Sergeant June 
8, 1865; wounded, June 16, 1864; mustered out Sept. ir, 1865. 
Resides at Surry, Me. 

Frederick A. Crockett, 18, Frankfort, s; mustered Jan. 4, 1864; 
mustered out Sept. ir, 1865. Resides at East Saginaw, Mich. 

Greenlief P. Curtis, 26, Swanville, m; mustered Dec. 21, 1863 j 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged April 10, 1865. 

Edmund N. Davis, 44, Wayne, m ; mustered Dec. 21, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged April 21, 1865. Died at Winthrop, Me.,, 
in 1882. 

Isaiah Davis, 24, Orland, s ; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; mustered out 
Sept. II, 1865. l^esides at South Dover, Me. 

Everett Dcdge, 21, Orland, s; mustered Dec. 15, 1863; wounded' 
June 18, 1864; discharged May 4, 1865. 

Asa Dore, 44, Wellington, m ; mustered Dec. 8, 1863 ; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

Frak B . Dore, 18, Wellington, s ; mustered Dec. 8, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged June 10, 1865. Resides at Lynn, Mass. 

William G. Dow, 18, Hancock, s ; mustered Dec. 26, 1863 ; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. Died at Philadelphia, Penn., July 30,. 
1871. 

Franklin Ellis, 22, Belfast, s; mustered Jan. 7, 1864; killed June 18, 
1864. 

John A. Ellis, 37, Charleston, m; mustered Dec. 22, 1863; dis- 
charged April 13, 1864. 



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George H. French, 18, Orneville, s: mustered Dec. 18, 1863; 
mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died at Orneville, Me., April 8, 1880. 

James E. Fulton, 23, New Brunswick, s; mustered Dec. 21, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864 ; discharged Sept. 4, 1864. Resides at 
HouUon, Me. 

Joseph A. Gilmore, 22, Belfast, s ; mustered Jan. 7, 1864; trans- 
ferred to the Navy April 13, 1864. Died at Belfast, Me., June 7, 
1899. 

William Goodale, 44, St. Albans, m; mustered Dec. 22, 1863; 
transferred to the V. R. C. and discharged therefrom June 23, 1865. 
Died at St. Albans, Me., March 8, 1900. 

Isaac B. Goodwin, 32, Penobscot, m; mustered Jan. 12, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged May 28, 1865. Resides at 
Penobscot, Me. 

Edwin W. Gould, 27, Bangor, s ; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; wounded 
June 18, 1864 ; mustered out Sept. 1 1, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Josiah M. Gowdey, 23, Charleston, s; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at 
Lincoln, Me. 

William H. Heagan, 18, Hancock, s ; mustered Dec. 26, 1863; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

John W. Hubbard, 18, Hiram, s ; mustered Dec. 9, 1863 ; promoted 
Second Lieutenant in United States Colored Troops Jan. 3, 1865, ^^^ 
transferred. Resides at Hiram, Me. 

Irving C. Jackson, 18, Bucksport, s; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged July 21, 1865. Died at Somer- 
ville, Mass., Oct. 16, 1899. 

William H. Jipson, 18, Frankfort, s ; mustered Dec. 21, 1863 ; died 
July 30, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Eben W. Johnston, 43, Charleston, m ; mustered Dec. 21, 1863; 
taken prisoner June 22, 1864; exchanged Nov. 25, 1864; discharged 
May 23, 1865. Resides at South Dover, Me. 

James Jones, 20, Hampden, s; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. 

George W.Joy, 18, Hancock, s ; mustered Dec. 26, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal Sept. i, 1865; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered 
out Sept n, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth, Me. 

Edwin J. Keene, 18, Chester, s; mustered Dec. 22, 1863 ; died of 
disease March 1, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY G. 329 

James S. Keene, 36, Chester, m ; mustered Dec. 18, 1863 ; died 
of disease June 22, 1864. 

Seneca E. Keene, 25, Chester, m; mustered Dec. 18, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 6, 1865. Died at Lin- 
coln, Me., Oct. 8, 1901. 

George W. Knowles, 18, Frankfort, s; mustered Jan. 4, 1864; 
promoted Corporal Nov. 8, 1864, Sergeant Sept. t, 1865; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Winterport, Me. 

Edwin L. Ladd, 25, Wellington, s; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 2, 1865. Resides at 
Vienna, Me. 

George E. Lathrop, 32, Prospect, m ; mustered Jan. 4, 1864; dis- 
charged June 3, 1865. Resides at Stockton Springs, Me. 

Alonzo Libby, 28, Pittsfield, m ; mustered Jan. 6, 1864 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged April 10, 1865. Resides at Pittsfield, Me. 

John McLaughlin, 41, Castine, m ; mustered Jan. 9, 1864; wounded 
May 19, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Castine, Me. 

John Nason, 2d, Belfast, s; mustered Dec. 14, 1863; transferred to 
the Navy April 13, 1864. 

Alfred E. Orcuit, 18, Eastbrook, s; mustered Dec. 17, 1863; died 
of disease Nov. 9, 1864. 

Ivory Otis, 35, Fairfield, m; mustered Dec. 21, 1863; wounded 
June 16, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died at South Nor- 
ridgewock. Me., Sept. 27, 1896. 

Lauriston C. Parsons, 18, Foxcroft, s ; mustered Dec. i, 1863 ; died 
of disease Feb. 16, 1865. 

Joseph Peavey, 43, Lincoln, m ; mus'ered Dec. 15, 1863; died of 
disease Feb. i, 1864. 

Thornton E. Peavey, 18, Lincoln, s; mustered Dec. 15, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864 ; died of disease Oct. 16, 1864. 

Samuel H. Philbrick, 38, Wellington, m; mustered Dec. 8, 1863 ; 
discharged June 5, 1865. 

Gilman Pike, 38, Wellington, m ; mustered Dec. 8, 1863 ; wounded 
May 19 and June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

John S. Quigley, 18, Cherryfield, s; mustered Dec. 8, 1863 ; died 
of disease June 9, 1864. 

Aaron Saunders, 36, Orland, m; mustered Dec. 22, 1863; died 
June 26, 1864, of wounds received June t8. 

Chnton D. Saunders, 30, Orland, m; mustered Dec. 5, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 



^^O THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Hudson Sawyer, 21, Levant, s; mustered July 28, 1863 ; promoted 
Sergeant Jan. 14, 1864, First Lieutenant July 27, 1864 ; wounded June 
18, 1864; promoted Captain Company I April 25, 1865, and trans- 
ferred. See Company L 

Charles L. Shaw, 19, Orneville, s; mustered Dec. 18, 1863; pro- 
moted Corporal Sept. i, 1864; died of disease Oct. 9, 1864. 

William H. Shaw, 31, Bradford, m; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; dis- 
charged June 30, 1865. Died about 1884. 

Henry H. Sleeper, 35; Milford, m; mustered Dec. 12, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died at 
Milford, Me., Dec. 5, 1868. 

John Smith, 21, Trenton, s ; mustered Dec. 26, 1863; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. Resides at Trenton, Me. 

Nathaniel Spaulding, 20, Hampden, s; mustered Dec. 16, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

William H. Squires, 21, New Brunswick, s ; mustered Dec. 21, 1863 ; 
deserted Jan. 1, 1865. Died at Upper Kent, N. B., May 16, 1894. 

Addison J. Strout, 30, Franklin, m; mustered Dec. 19, 1863; died 
Aug. 5, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Willard E. Suckforth, 20, Appleton, s; mustered Dec. 30, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864 ; discharged June 10, 1865. Died at Togus, 
Me., Jan. 18, 1901. 

Horatio A. Thurston, 18, Belfast, s; mustered Dec. 26, 1863 ; dis- 
charged Sept. 3, 1865. Died at Passumpsic, Vt , Dec. 27, 1891. 

Stephen Thurston, 36, Belfast, m ; mustered Dec. 26, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged Jan. 19, 1865. Died at Belfast, Me., Aug. 
20, 1889. 

Jesse Tibbetts, 33, Frankfort, m ; mustered Dec. 22, 1863 ; wounded 
June 18, 1864; mustered out Sept. ii, 1865. 

Minot Tolman, 40, Warren, m; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; wounded 
June 18, 1864; discharged June 14, 1865. Died at Rockport, Me., 
about 1897. 

Moses B. Tolman, 39, Lincoln, m; mustered Dec. 15, 1864; died 
July 31, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Charles B. Trafton, 18, Newfield, s; mustered Dec. 22, 1863; died 
of disease Feb. 13, 1864. 

Roscoe Trevitt, 20, Frankfort, s; mustered Jan. 5, 1864; taken 
prisoner May 31, 1864 ; died in prison date unknown. 

Elias Webber, Jr., 25, Wilton, m; mustered Dec. 5, 1863 ; wounded 
May 19, 1864; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Died Jan. 14, 1889. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY G. 33 1 

Aaron E. Williams, 25, Industry, s; mustered Dec. 28, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; died of disease Jan. 21, 1865. 

JOINED AFTER NOV. I, 1 864. 

Co m m issioned Officers. 

First Lient. Charles J. House, Lee, joined by transfer from Com- 
pany C April 25, 1865 ; in command of Post at Camp Stoneman in 
summer of 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. Resides at Augusta, 
Me. 

Second Lieut. Daniel O. Bovven, Morrill, joined by transfer from 
Company L Feb. 9, 1865 ; promoted First Lieutenant April 25, 1865 ; 
mustered out Sept. it, 1865. Resides at Morrill, Me. 

Second Lieut. Alphonzo A. Tozier, Veazie, joined by transfer from 
Company I March 23, 1865; mustered out Sept. ir, 1865. Resides 
at East Haverhill, Mass. 

Enlisted Men. 

Francis B. Clark, i^i-^ Thompson, Conn. ; mustered Oct. 11, 1864 ; 
deserted Nov. 12. 1864. 

Michael Hannon, 28, Ireland, m; mustered Oct. 11, 1864 ; mus- 
tered out Sept. IT, 1865. 

Charles Hendrickson, 24, Philadelphia, Pa., s ; mustered Oct. 14, 
1864; slightly wounded April 6, 1865 ; mmstered out Sept. 11, 1865. 

John J. Leary, 28, Montreal, Canada; mustered Oct. t2, 1864; 
died of disease Feb. 20, 1865. 

John McCullough, 21, VVestbrook, s; mustered Oct. 14, T864 ; dis- 
charged June 24, 1865. 

Silas M. Marshall, 29, Hampstead, N. H. ; mustered Oct. 12, 
1864; died of disease March ry, 1865. 

Thomas Murphy, 26, Portland ; mustered Oct. 14, 1864 ; deserted 
Nov. 12, T864. 

John Riley, 24, Portland; mustered Oct. 14, 1864; deserted 
Nov. 12, 1864. 

James Roberts, 26, Portland, s; mustered Oct. 12., 1864; pro- 
moted Corporal June 8, 1865 5 mustered out Sept. it, 1865. 

George Smith, 23, Liverpool, Eng.,s; mustered Oct. 12, 1864; 
deserted Nov. 18, 1864, and July 4, 1865. 

John Stone, 19, St. John, N. B., s; mustered Oct. 12, 1864; 
deserted Nov. t8, 1864, and July 4, 1865. 



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THE FIRST iMAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



COMPANY H. 

As Mustered Aug. 21, 186. 





Capt. HUDSON SAUNDERS. 



Lieut. THOMAS H. PALMER. 



Captain HUDSON SAUNDERS 

Joined by transfer from Company G March 23, 1865. Was a sturdy, 
robust, tireless man. Did excellent service, in the rapid campaign of 
1865, as he had before in his original Company in all the campaigns of 
the Regiment. Died at Lynn, Mass., April 22, 1895. 

First Lieutenant THOMAS H. PALMER 

Joined as First Lieutenant, from Milbridge. As hre was on detached 
service at Fort Knox, Me., the writer knew little as to his qualifications 
as an officer. 



First Lieutenant WILLIAM R. NEWENHAM 

Joined as Second Lieutenant, from Cherryfield. To this young offi- 
cer Company H was very largely indebted for its instruction and devel- 
opment. He was a good soldier, did excellent service whili building 
the defenses of Washington and in all the battles of the Regiment 
previous to June 18, when he was wounded, and died in consequence 



RECORDS OF COMPANY H. 333 

July 9, 1864, much regretted by his fellow-officers and the soldiers of 
his Company, among whom he was very popular. 




f 




Lieut. WILLIAM R. NE WEN [I AM. Lieut. ISAAC J. DUNHAM. 

First Lieutenant ISAAC J. DUNHAM 

Joined by transfer from Company G Feb. 9, 1865. Lieutenant 
Dunham was a good soldier. He was with the Regiment in all its 
seivice, participated in its battles, did valuable service, remained to 
the end. and was mustered out with this Company. Was for some years 
a prominent and excellent citizen of his native town. He resides at 
present in Boston, Mass. 

Second Lieutenant JOTHAM L. BUZZELL 

Joined as Sergeant, from Harrington; First Sergeant from Sept. i, 
1864; Second Lieutenant from Feb. 9, 1865. Discharged July i, 
1865. Was a good soldier, conscientious in his work, rendered his 
country good service, and has since the war been a worthy and valuable 
citizen of the place where he has resided. 

Second Lieutenant ALLEN E. BARRY 

Joined as Orderly Sergeant, from Whitneyville. In the faithful per- 
formance of the arduous duties of this office, where so much of the 
efficiency of his Company depended upon him, he developed qualities 
which would have made an excellent captain. He was with the Regi- 



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THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



ment in all its service and battles uniil his death. Was promoted to 
Second Lieutenant Jan. i8, 1864, and was killed at Petersburg June 
18, 1864, much regretted. 





Lteut. JOTHAM L. liU/ZKLL. 



LiEUi. ALLEN E. liARRV 



Connnissioned Officers. 

Capt. Harrison G. Smith, 42, Columbia Falls, m; wounded June 18, 
1864; promoted Major March 23, 1865, and transferred. See Field 
and Staff. 

First Lieutenant Thomas H. Palmer, 36, Milbridge, m; on detached 
service at Fort Knox, Me., from Jan. i, 1863. Discharged July i, 
1865. See Fort Knox Squad. 

Second Lieutenant William R. Nevvenham, 32, Cherryfield, s; pro- 
moted First Lieutenant Jan. 18, 1864 ; died July 9, 1864, from wounds 
received June 18. 

Sej-geants. 

Allen E. Barry, 28, Whitneyville, m ; promoted Second Lieutenant 
Jan. 18, 1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

Jotham L. Buzzell, 40, Harrington, m ; promoted First Sergeant 
Sept. I, 1864, Second Lieutenant Feb. 9, 1865; discharged July i, 
1865. 

Ira M. Bovvers, 35, Milbridge, m; promoted First Sergeant Jan. 23, 
1864; Second Lieutenant July 27, 1864; wounded Oct. 27, 1864; 
discharged Jan. 18, 1865. Died at Jonesport, Me. 

Elijah B. Barton, 22, Addison, s; died of disease Nov. 13, 1862. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY H. 335 

William M. Flynn, 29, Whitneyville, m ; discharged Oct. 10. 1863. 
Died at Whitneyville, Me., April 28, 190 1. 

Corporals. 

Jonathan Pineo, 39, Addison, m ; promoted Sergeant Nov. 14, 
1862, commissioned Second Lieutenant, July 27, 1864, not mustered ; 
wounded June 18, 1864 ; discharged April 4, 1865. Resides at Stone- 
ham, Mass. 

George S. Farnsworth, 34, Jonesboro, m ; promoted Sergeant 
Oct. 10, 1863; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Addison, Me., 
June 14, 1901. 

Charles Emerson, 18, Addison, m; promoted Sergeant Jan. i, 
1864; wounded May 31, 1864 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides 
at Addison, Me. 

Augustus C. Bond, 20, Cherryfield, s ; died of disease Aug. 17, 1863. 

George H. Coffin, 18, Harrington, s; promoted Sergeant June i, 
1864, First Sergeant Feb. 16, 1865 ; wounded June v^., 1864 ; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Resides at Harrington, Me. 

Artliur B. Tibbetts, 20, Cherryfield, s ; transferred to the Navy 
April 17, 1864. 

Eben S. Church, ^d, Jonesport, m ; transferred to the Navy April 
17, 1864. Resides at Cottage City, Mass. 

Philander D. Low, 26. Columbia, m; died June 12, 1864, of 
wounds received May 19. 

Musicians. 

George H. Norcross, 22, Addison, s; transferred to the Navy April 
17, 1864. Resides at Maiden, Mass. 

Gilman P. Smith, 18, Jonesport, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Harrington, Me. 

Wagoner. 

James P. Wakefield, 18, Steuben, s; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Steuben, Me. 

Privates. 

Samuel B. Ackley, 37, Whitneyville, m ; died of disease June 15, 
1864. 

Isaac N. Albee, 18, Whitneyville, s; discharged May 19, 1865. 
Died at Machias, Me., Sept. 12, 1888. 



236 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

William L. Allen, i8, Deblois, s; wounded June 4, 1864; discharged 
Nov. 19, 1864. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Francis Atchinson, 44, Jonesport, s; discharged June 16, 1863. 
Resides at Jonesport, Me. 

Moses N. H. Baker, 43, Sullivan, m ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; dis- 
charged April 5, 1865. Resides at Sullivan, Me. 

Lewis Barton, 38, Columbia, s; promoted Commissary Sergeant Jan. 
I, 1864; discharged May 22, 1865. Died at Lodi, Cal., March, 1898. 

Frank Bennett, 18, Harrington, s ; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Leverett C. Bridgham, 20, Beddington, s; promoted Corporal Jan. 
I, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 16, 1865. Resides 
at Beddington, Me. 

Daniel S. Bunker, 30, Sullivan, s ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; mustered 
out June 6, 1865. Resides at Sullivan, Me. 

Samuel H. Bussell, 18, Cherryfield, s; promoted Corporal; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

Francis G. Cain, 27, Sullivan, m ; died of disease Sept. (6, 1863. 

Richard Cannon, 18, Steuben, s; died Sept. i, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

Alvin C. Casey, 32, Carmel, s ; promoted Corporal Nov. 14, 1863, 
Sergeant; killed June 18, 1864. 

Daniel Chipman, 36, Milbridge, m ; discharged June 30, 1865. 
Lost overboard at sea Nov. 27, 1867. 

William Clark, 28, Milbridge, m; discharged March 17, 1865. 
Resides at Rockland, Me. 

Oiis P. Cofifin, 32, Harrington, m ; promoted Corporal Oct. 10, 
1863 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Harrington, Me. 

Benjamin Cousins, 31, Harrington, s; wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged May r, 1865. Resides at Milbridge, Me. 

Michael Cunningham, 23, Cherryfield, s ; promoted Corporal Jan. 
1, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died 
at Cherryfield, Me., March 20, 1903. 

William Dobbins, Jr., 34, Jonesport, m; wounded June 18, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Machiasport, Me. 

Joseph L. Downs, 30, Steuben, m ; killed May 19, 1864. 

Everett W. Drisko, 20, Jonesport, s; promoted Corporal Jan. i, 
1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Charles A. Eaton, 18, Steuben, s; transferred to the Navy April 
17, 1864. Died at Cherryfield, Me., Nov. 26, 1898. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY H. T^^^ 

William H. Emerson, 26, Addison, s., discharged January 31, 
1864. Resides at Addison, Me. 

Adrial Farnsworth, 21, Addison, m., discharged January 31, 

1864. Resides at Framingham, INIass. 

Calvin Farnsworth, 18, Addison, s., promoted Corporal April 
21, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged January 5, 1865. 
Resides at Washington, D. C. 

Albert G. Fickett, 23, Harrington, s., died of disease October 
16, 1862. 

Benjamin H. Foss, 20, Jonesport, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged November 9, 1864. Resides at Jonesport, Me. 

Robert Goodwin, 2>^, Milbridge, m., wounded April 7, 1865 ; 
discharged June 23, 1865. Died at East Machias, Me., about 1890. 

Henry W. Grant, 19, Cherryfield, s., killed June 18, 1864. 

Elias Griffin, 28, Milbridge, m., promoted Corporal September 
20, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; transferred to the Y. R. C. Jan- 
uary 10, 1865, and discharged therefrom June 28, 1865. Died 
December 26, 1872. 

Enoch L. Hall, 26, Harrington, m., appointed Musician; dis- 
charged May 20, 1865. Died December 4, 1892, 

Warren L. Hall, 20, Columbia, s., killed June 18, 1864. 

Samuel Hart, 19, Cherryfield., s., killed June 18, 1864. 

Charles T. Haskell, 27, Levant, s., wounded October, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Aaron W. Kelley, 30, Harrington, m., promoted Corporal Sep- 
tember 20, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged February 16, 

1865. Resides at Addison, Me. 

Curtis Leighton, 24, Cherryfield, m., mustered out June 6, 1865, 
Died at Searsport, Me., May 28, 1895. 

Jason Leighton, 18, Cherryfield, s., wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged May 19, 1865. Resides at Cherryfield, Me. 

Thaddeus O. Leighton, 18, Steuben, s., promoted Corporal 
June I, 1864; discharged July 14, 1865. 

Ellery B. Libby, 25, Jonesport, s., died of disease August 6, 1863. 

Owen C. IVIcKenzie, 40, Addison, m., died of disease October 
16, 1862. 



2^8 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Jefferson D. Merritt, 21, Addison, s., transferred to the Navy 
May 5, 1864. Died at Chelsea, Mass., February 6, 1893. 

Wyman Merritt, 26, Addison, s., transferred to the Navy April 
17, 1864. Died at Milbridge, Me., 1892. 

Augustus P. Nash, 26, Steuben, s., promoted Corporal, Ser- 
geant September i, 1864; taken prisoner Decembers, 1864; paroled 
January 8, 1865 ; drowned April 23, 1865. 

Horatio P. Nash, 20, Addison, s., promoted Corporal; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

Joshua I. Nash, 28, Columbia, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Columbia Falls, Me., September 15, 1900. 

Moses E. Nash, 24, Harrington, m., transferred to the Navy 
April 17, 1864. Resides at Columbia P^alls, Me. 

Thomas Page, ^^, Milbridge, m., transferred to the Navy April 
17, 1864. Resides at Milbridge, Me. 

Alexander Parker, 25, Columbia, m., killed May 19, 1864. 

Josiah D. Pineo, 18, Jonesport, s., died of disease October 4, 1862. 

George W. Pinkham, 27, Steuben, m., died of disease July 31, 
1864. 

John T. Pinkham, 36, Steuben, m., died of disease July 6, 1864. 

Nathaniel W. Pinkham, 21, Milbridge, s., taken prisoner June 
8, 1864; died in prison July 17, 1864. 

Fernando C. Plummer, 22, Harrington, s., promoted Corporal 
and Sergeant; killed May 31, 1864. 

Charles H. Sawyer, 25, Milbridge, s., promoted Corporal July 
8, 1863, Sergeant February 16, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Lagrange, Me. 

Enos Sawyer, 18, Milbridge, s., taken prisoner June 8, 1864; 
died in prison August 2, 1864. 

Rufus S. Sinclair, 25, Cherryfield, m., promoted Corporal; 
wounded June 18, 1864, and AprilG, 1865; discharged July 11, 1865. 

William A. Sinclair, 44, Columbia, m., discharged January 31, 
1864. Died at Columbia Falls, Me., August, 1898. 

Warren T. Small, 31, Steuben, m., promoted Corporal July i, 
1864; taken prisoner September 9, 1864; died in prison December 
16, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY H. 339 

Benjamin Smith, 23, Jonesport, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Jonesport, Me. 

James Smith, 44, Harrington, m., discharged July 25, 1865. 
Died February 26, 1892. 

Howard M. Stratton, 18, Harrington, s., died July 2, 1864, of 
wounds received June 18. 

Benjamin W. Strout, 18, Milbridge, s., transferred to the Navy 
April 17, 1864. Resides at Milbridge, Me. 

Zemmery 1). Tabbott, 21, Columbia, m., discharged January 31, 
1864. Died at Bangor, Me., August 25, 1886. 

Benjamin N. Tucker, 25, Columbia, m,, promoted Corporal; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Wheelock Tucker, 18, Cherryfield, s., discharged August 1 6, 1865. 

Wilmot B. Tucker, 18, Cherryfield, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Joseph F. Wakefield, 19, Steuben, s., promoted Corporal Feb- 
ruary 17, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

James W. Wallace, 23, Cherryfield, s., died of disease October 
23, 1862. 

Warren C. Wallace, 18, Cherryfield, s., died of disease October 
8, 1S64. 

Wilbury L. \A'allace, 21, Milbridge, s., promoted Artificer; died 
of disease September i, 1864. 

Loren O. Ward, 18, Carmel, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Kenduskeag, Me. 

John Welch, 18, Cherryfield, s., promoted Corporal September 
20, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865." 

Peter F. White, 25, Jonesport, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at South Gardiner, Me., May 20, 1893. 

Daniel L. Wilkinson, 27, Sullivan, m., died of disease October 
27, 1862. 

Richard W. Willey, 25, Cherryfield, m., wounded March 31, 
1865 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Cherryfield, Me., August 
13, 1896. 

Robert L. Willey, 20, Cherryfield, m., promoted Corporal Sep- 
tember 20, 1864; arm blown off by premature discharge of cannon 
April 10, 1865, at Cherryfield, Me. ; discharged August 3, 1865. 
Resides at Cherryfield, Me. 



340 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Charles E. Wilson, 41, Cherryfield, m., discharged January 30, 
1865. Died at Cherryfield, Me., April 22, 1893. 

Aaron L. Worster, 18, Columbia, s., died of disease October 16, 
1864. 

Joseph W. Worster, 21, Columbia, s., promoted Corporal Jan- 
uary I, 1864, Sergeant September 20, 1864; wounded June 18, 
1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Addison, Me. 

fOINED AFTER NOVEMBER I, 1862. 

Alonzo Archer, 21, Cherryfield, m., mustered February 23, 1863 : 
deserted July 23, 1863. 

Andrew F. Blyther, 18, Machias, s., mustered March 11, 1863; 
died June 20, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

James H. Brazzell, 21, Columbia, s., mustered May 11, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864, and April 6, 1865 ; mustered out Septem- 
ber II, 1865. 

William H. Cates, 24, Columbia, s., joined by transfer from 
Co. T, 2d Maine Infantry, September 14, 1863, mustered December 
13, 1861; killed June 18, 1864. 

Edson Corthell, 18, Milbridge, s., mustered February 3, 1863; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Beddington, Me. 

Everett W. Davis, 18, Machias, s., mustered March 14, 1863 ; 
wounded June 16, 1864; deserted August 24, 1865. 

Newell W. Davis, 20, Machias, s., mustered March 11, 1863: 
died August, 1865, of wounds received March 25. 

Franklin F. Foss, 18, Machias, s., mustered March 11, 1863; 
died of disease July, 1864. 

Hillman Foss, 18, Machias, s., mustered March 11, 1863; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

John Q. A. Foss, 26, Machias, s., mustered March 11, 1863; 
wounded October 20, 1864; discharged September i, 1865. Re- 
sides at Roque Bluffs, Me. 

Benjamin M. Oilman, 18, Machias, s., mustered March 11, 
1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Oeorge H. Harrington, 22, Whitneyville, s., mustered March 
II, 1863; discharged January 31, 1864. Resides at Whitneyville, 
Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY H. 34I • 

John S. Joy, 21, Steuben, s., mustered March 24, 1863; dis- 
charged January 31, 1864. 

George W. Low, 23, Steuben, s., mustered March 28, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; died of disease February 5, 1865. 

Wilford J. Low, 18, Steuben, s., mustered February 11,1863; 
discharged June 5, 1865. 

Leander K. Marston, 18, Machias, s., mustered April 18, 1863 ; 
promoted Corporal August i, 1865; mustered out September 11, 
1865. Resides at 166 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. 

Lewis Mitchell, 22, Milbridge, s., mustered February 21, 1863; 
died in the field of exhaustion June 21, 1864. 

James A. Nash, 19, Harrington, s., mustered February 21, 1863 ; 
died July 6, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

George S. Tabbitts, 18, Columbia, s., mustered June 12, 1863; 
died of disease July 26, 1864. 

Edward M. Yates, 30, Machias, m., mustered April 18, 1863; 
discharged July 20, 1865. Resides at Old Orchard, Me, 

Joined after November i, 1863. 
Commissiofied Officers. 

2d Lieut. John A. Lancy, Bangor, joined by transfer from Field 
and Staff January 18, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; promoted ist 
Lieut. Co. F August 15, 1865, and transferred. See Co. F. 

Enlisted Men. 

J\istis Adams, 36, Carratunk Plantation, m., mustered Novem- 
ber 27, 1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; discharged January 27, 1865. 
Died at Togus, Me., July 27, 1902. 

Francis Babb, 37, Corinna, m., mustered December 4, 1863; 
discharged March 4, 1864. Died at Corinna, Me., April 26, 1897. 

Phineas S. Bennett, 20, Unity, s., mustered January 2, 1864; 
wounded June 4, 1864; discharged 1865, Died at Unity, Me., soon 
after the war. 

Arthur D. Bumps, 19, ]\Iilo, m., mustered December 10, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864, and April 6, 1865 : mustered out Septem- 
ber II, 1865. Resides at Milo, Me. 



342 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Franklin Burke, 30, Milbridge, m., mustered January 1, 1864; 
promoted Artificer January i, 1865; mustered out September 11, 
1865. Resides at Milbridge, Me. 

George W. Burke, 24, Steuben, m., mustered December 2, 1863: 
died June 30, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Lewis Burke, 44, Steuben, m., mustered December 21, 1863: 
promoted Artificer January, 1864, Corporal August i, 1865; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1S65. Died at Cherryfield, Me., about 1897. 

Wilmot N. Burke, ^o, Steuben, m., mustered December 26, 
1863; wounded May 23, 1864; discharged June 21, 1865. Resides 
at Steuben, Me. 

George Bush, 25, Stanstead, Canada East, m., mustered Sep- 
tember 20, 1864; wounded October 27, 1864; mustered out Sep- 
tember II, 1865. Resides at Barton Landing, Vt. 

Jotham S. Bussell, 18, Cherryfield, s., mustered December 14, 
1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Cherryfield, 
Me. 

William A. Bussell, 29, Columbia, m., mustered December 29, 
1863; deserted June 10, 1864. 

Reuben Chandler, 29, Addison, m., mustered January 2, 1864; 
promoted Corporal September 20, 1864; mustered out September 
II, 1 8 65. Resides at Addison, Me. 

Elijah C. Clark, 18, Corinth, s., mustered December 10, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; promoted Corporal August i, 1865: mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Died at Somerville, Mass., January 
5' 1903- 

Lorenzo Cofiin, 26, Beddington, s., mustered December 7, 1863; 
died of disease November 23, 1864. 

Hanson Cole, 26, Springfield, m., mustered August 8, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 5, 1865. Resides at 
Springfield, Me. 

James Cole, 44, Winterport, m., mustered November 26, 1863; 
discharged May 22, 1865. Died at Hampden, I\Ie., March 8, 1893. 

Samuel L. Crawford, 44, Alton, m., mustered November 21, 
1863; transferred to the V. R. C. October 8, 1864. Resides at 
Palmyra, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY H. 343 

Timothy Cunningham, 44, Cherryfield, m., mustered December 
8, 1S63; wounded April 6, 1865; discharged May 11, 1865. Died 
February 28, 1887. 

Edward J. Donald, 30, Sebec, m., mustered December 15, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 20, 1865. Died at 
Sebec, Me., June 4, 1899. 

Roland B. Donnell, ;^2, Lee, m., mustered November 28, 1863 ; 
died of disease November 28, 1864. 

Charles H. Dunham, 18, Etna, s., mustered December 5, 1863 ; 
died of disease February 25, 1864. 

Granville Dunham, 22, Etna, s., mustered December 5, 1863 ; 
died June 28, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Jeremiah Durgin, 3d, 18, West F'orks Plantation, s., mustered 
November 27, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864 ; discharged May 20, 
1865. Resides at The Forks, Me. 

George A. Estes, 22, Troy, s., mustered November 19, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 8, 1865. Resides at 
Troy, Me. 

Campbell A. Fickett, 18, Columbia, s., mustered December 7, 
1863 ; not accounted for. absent sick at muster out. 

Charles E. Fickett, 18, Cherryfield, s., mustered December 10, 
1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died in Brewer, Me. 

George L. Fitzgerald, 41, Foxcroft, m., mustered December 9, 
1863 ; wounded May 19 and June 18, 1864 ; mustered out Septem- 
ber II, 1865. Died at Foxcroft, Me., March 7, 1902. 

Nathan B. Fowler, 36, Hermon, m., mustered November 23, 
1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Boston, Mass. 

Benjamin T. Genthner, 18, Parkman, s., mustered December 
15, 1863 ; wounded June 18 and October 27, 1864; mustered out 
September 11, 1865. Resides at Foxcroft, Me. 

Ezra C. Gray, 22, Addison, s., mustered December 21, 1863; 
wounded May 31, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Re- 
sides at Addison, Me. 

Jeremiah Gray, 34, Addison, m., mustered December 28, 1863; 
died July 5, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Daniel W. Hayes, 43, Sebec, m., mustered December 15, 1863 ; 
died of disease June 18, 1864. 



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THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Calvin P. Holway, i8, Carratunk Plantation, s., mustered 
December 24, 1863: died June 19, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

William G. Jackson, 26, Lee, s., mustered November 28, 1863 
died August 26, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Leonard W. Lee, 18, Foxcroft, s., mustered December 4, 1863 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Andrew J. Lombard, t,^, Buxton, m., mustered December 16 
1863; wounded May 25, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865 
Resides at West Buxton, Me. 

Stacy T. Mansfield, 18, Foxcroft, s., mustered December 9, 1863 
discharged September 20, 1865. Resides at Foxcroft, Me. 

Cyrus B, Millett, 25, Winterport, s., mustered December 6 
1863; absent sick at muster out. Resides at North Woodstock, Me 
John H. Modery, ;^S, Alton, m., mustered November 21, 1863 
discharged June i, 1865. Resides at Hudson, Me. 

Lafayette Murray, 18, Corinth, s., mustered December 5, 1863 
died July 5, 1864, of wounds received May 25. 

John F. Norton, 18, Springfield, s., mustered November 28 
1863 ; died July 4, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Edmund Perry, 29, Carmel, m., mustered November 30, 1863 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Oliver H. Perry, 44, Carmel, m., mustered November 30, 1863 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Carmel, Me. 

Albert C. Phinney, 21, Steuben, s., mustered January 4, 1864 
wounded May 25, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Re- 
sides at Steuben, Me. 

Fdwin N. Pratt, 18, Foxcroft, s., mustered December 3, 1863 ; 
died of disease May 2, 1864. 

Joseph S. Ridley, 21, Alton, s., mustered November 19, 1863; 
died of disease July 6, 1864. 

James H. Rogers, 44, Brewer, m., mustered December i, 1863 ; 
died of disease May 14, 1864. 

Thacher Severance, 36, Sebec, m., mustered December 5, 
1863 ; died of disease September 29, 1864. 

Frank Shaw, 18, Limerick, s., mustered October 4, 1864 ; 
deserted May i, 1865. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY H. 345 

Andrew F. Southard, 24, Pittsfield, s., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal July i, 1864 ; mustered out September 
II, 1865. Resides at Pittsfield, Me. 

Isaac Southard, 36, Vassalboro, m., mustered November 23, 
1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Old Town, Me., 
August 30, 1900. 

Israel Sweet, 21, Boston, Mass., s., mustered September 29, 
1864; wounded March 25, 1865 ; discharged July 6, 1865. 

Converse Thomas, 22, Lee, s., mustered November 28, 1863; 
wounded June 18 and October 27, 1864; mustered out Sep- 
tember II, 1865. Resides at Lee, Me. 

Samuel A. Thomas, 24, Lee, s., mustered November 28, 1863 ; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 2, 1865. Resides at 
Ketchum, Alturas Co., Idaho. 

Seward W. Tucker, 31, Webster Plantation, m., mustered Novem- 
ber 8, 1863; died of disease August 14, 1864. 

Sherman L. Tucker, 27, Springfield, m., mustered November 
21, 1863: wounded May 19, 1864; discharged May 10, 1865. 
Resides at Springfield, Me. 

George W. Tuesley, 18, Hermon, s., mustered November 13, 
1863 ; died June 30, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

William W. Warren, 18, Dover, s., mustered December 5, 1863 ; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 25, 1865. Resides at 
Dover, Me. 

Nathan B. Watson, 19, Columbia, s., mustered December 30, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged December 16, 1864. 

Benjamin Weaver, t,;^, Sebec, s., mustered December 2, 1863 ; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Austin W. Whittier, 18, Corinth, s., mustered December 10, 
1863 ; died August 30, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

George M. Willey, 18, Dixmont, s., mustered December i, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; not accounted for. 

Thomas Williamson, 44, Hermon, m., mustered December 5, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Died at Bangor, Me., June 17, 1897. 



^>5 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

JOINED AFTER NOVEMBER I, 1864. 

Co??iJ>nssioned Officers. 

Capt. Hudson Saunders, Orland, joined by transfer from Co. 
G March 23, 1865; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at 
Lynn, Mass,, April 22, 1895. 

I St Lieut. Isaac J. Dunham, Winterport, joined by transfer from 
Co. G February 9, 1865; mustered out September 11, 1865. Re- 
sides at Boston, Mass. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY I. 347 

COMPANY I. 

As Mustered August 21, 1862. 





Capt. JOHN W. ATWELL. Capt. ANDREW J. .lAQUITH. 

Captain JOHN W. ATWELL. 

Original Captain and organizer. Remained till his Company had 
attained a high degree of efficiency. Was prominent in the lumber business 
before and after the war. Was a man and officer of marked ability. 

Captain ANDREW^ J. JAOUITH. 

Original First Lieutenant, from Old Town. Was a capable and accom- 
plished officer. Much in command of his Company as Lieutenant, he was 
well prepared for the promotion to succeed Captain Atw^ell. He was in all 
the service and battles of the Regiment. Wounded in battle IVIay 19 and 
June 18, 1S64, and died from effect of his wounds. 

Captain SAMUEL J. OAKES 

Joined as Second Lieutenant, from Old Town, First Lieutenant January 
21, 1S64 ; promoted to Captain July 27, 1S64. Was wounded June 18, 1864. 
One of the best among the heroic and noble men who commanded Com- 
panies in this Regiment. Brave, alert, and intelligent, his service was a 
model. Killed March 25, 1865. 

First Lieutenant RICHARD V. MOORE 

Joined as Orderly Sergeant ; promoted Second Lieutenant January 21, 
1864, First Lieutenant February 9, 1864. Wounded severely May 19, 1864. 
Was an excellent and popular officer, splendidly fitted for a higher com- 
mand. He was postmaster at Old Town for many years, and died Septem- 
ber 2, 1897, much regretted by comrades. 



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THE FIRSr MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY 





Capt. SAMUEL J. OAKES. 



LiFATT. RICHARD V. MOORE. 



First Lieutenant THOMAS G. SPRATT. 
See record, Corporals Company I. 

Second Lieutenant SAMUEL W. CROWELL 

Joined from Orono, as Sergeant ; promoted Second Lieutenant January 
2f, 1864. Mortally wounded June 18, and died June 27, 1864. An accom- 
plished young officer, much loved and regretted. 




r 



AKVT. THOMAS ({. SPRATT. 



Lieut. SAINIUEL AV. OROWELL 



RECORDS OF COMPANY I. 



349 



ConiJtiissioned Officers. 

Capt. John W. Atwell, 37, Orono, m., discharged January 20, 
1864. Died at Orono, Me., November 18, 1890. 

I St Lieut. Andrew J. Jaquith, 30, Old Town, s., promoted Capt. 
February 9, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; died July i, 1864, from 
wounds received June 18. 

2d Lieut. Samuel J. Oakes, 29, Old Town, m., promoted ist 
Lieut. January 21, 1864, Capt. July 27, 1864; wounded June 18, 
1864; killed March 25, 1865. 

Sergeants. 

Richard V. Moore, 26, Old Town, m., promoted 2d Lieut. Jan- 
uary 21, 1864, 1st Lieut. February 9, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged December 10, 1864. Died at Old Town, Me., Septem- 
ber 2, 1897. 

Albert White, 25, Orono, s., promoted 2d Lieut. July 27, 1864, 
ist Lieut. November 8, 1864; discharged May 15, 1865. Resides 
at Orono, Me. 

John E. Bennoch, 27, Orono, m., discharged January 19, 1863. 
Resides at Orono, Me. 

Samuel W. Crowell, 25, Orono, s., promoted 2d Lieut. January 
21, 1864; died June 27, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Ithamer D. Morton, 39, Old Town, m., killed May 19, 1864. 

Corporals. 

Thomas G. Spratt, n, Alton, m., promoted Sergeant January 
19, 1S63, ist Sergeant February 14, 1864, 2d Lieut. July 27, 1864, 
ist Lieut. February 9, 1865; mustered out September n, 1865. 
On duty every day from enlistment to muster out. Died at Alpena, 
Mich., May 25, 1895. 

Moses A. Colburn, 23, Orono, m., appointed Musician January 
II, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Augusta, Me. 

Charles M. Weymouth, 31, Orono, m., promoted Sergeant Jan- 
uary II, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged December 23, 
1864. Died at Orono, Me., November 14, 1889. 

Adalbert F. Sproule, 21, Veazie, s., wounded May 19, 1864; died 
June 24, 1864, from wounds received June 18. 



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Charles Derocher, 25, Orono, s., promoted Commissary Sergeant 
January 5, 1865; mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Williamsport, 
Pennsyh^ania. 

Benjamin F. Oakes, 24, Old Town, s., promoted Sergeant Jan- 
uary II, 1864, ist Sergeant January 24, 1864, 2d Lieut. February 
9, 1864, ist Lieut. July 27, 1864; promoted Captain Co. L Novem- 
ber 8, 1864, and transferred. See Co. L. 

Andrew S. Butters, 37, Old Town, m., promoted Artificer; 
discharged April 21, 1865. Died at Old Town, Me., May 12, 1884. 

George H. Oakes, 25, Old Town, m., promoted Sergeant Co. L 
February 11, 1864, and transferred. See Co. L. 

Musicians. 

George L. Emerson, 29, Mapleton, m., discharged January 29, 
1863. Resides at Mapleton, Me. 

Albert C. Palmer, 19, Exeter, s., transferred to 17th U. S. 
Infantry March 27, 1863. 

Wagoner. 

Charles Mercer, 44, Orono, m., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged March 17, 1865. Died at Orono, Me., May 16, 1876. 

Privates. 

William F. Babb, 27, Alton, s., discharged February 21, 1864. 

Newton E. Bonney, 21, Veazie, s., promoted Corporal February 
14, 1864, Sergeant August 31, 1864; wounded March 25, 1865 ; dis- 
charged July 14, 1865. Died at Island Pond, Vt., September, 1889. 

Charles W. Bosworth, 22, Old Town, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged April 10, 1865. Resides at Old Town, Me. 

Joel F. Brown, 18, Orono, s., wounded June 24, 1864; dis- 
charged September 12, 1865. Resides at Melrose, Mass. 

Charles A. ]Jurgess, 28, Old Town, m., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged June 2, 1865. Resides at Milbridge, Me. 

Thomas Burke, 23, Presque Isle, s., discharged February 5, 
1863. 

Allen W. Buzzell, 22, Orono, s., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Togus, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY I. 



351 



Ira Chapman, 28, Orono, m., died June 28, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

Barnard G. Church, 29, Old Town, m., mustered out June 6, 
1865. Died at Dexter, Me., January i, 1898. 

Elijah K. Cleaveland, 21, Athens, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. 

John D. Cole, 39, Orono, m., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged May II, 1865. Died at Orono, Me., November 23, 1884. 

Thomas J. Cole, 24, Old Town, s., discharged June 10, 1865. 
Resides at Bangor, Me. 

John A. Cousins, 21, Old Town, s., promoted Corporal January 
II, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged July 10, 1865. Re- 
sides at Stillwater, Me. 

John B. Curtis, 28, Orono, m., promoted Corporal January 11, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged February 25, 1865. 
Died at Orono, Me. 

George W. Derocher, 22, Orono, s., died February 20, 1865, of 
wounds received May 19, 1864. 

Oval Derocher, 30, Orono, s., died June 10, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

Henry II. Doane, 21, Orono, s., died June i, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

William Doane, 25, Veazie, s., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged September 18, 1865, Resides at Clifton, Me. 

George W. Doe, 24, Orono, s., died June 19, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

William H. Doughty, 18, Veazie, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged May 4, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Calvin Douglass, t,;^, Old Town, m., wounded June 18, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at West Old Town, Me. 

Richard Dowdell, 35, Orono, s., killed May 19, 1864. 

James G. Dudley, 22, Veazie, s., killed June 18, 1864. 

Erastus F. Emery, 26, Old Town, m., taken prisoner March 25, 
1865; paroled March 29, 1865; discharged May 29, 1865. Resides 
at Turner Falls, Mass. 



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THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



James A. Farrar, i8, Old Town, s., wounded June i8, 1864; 
discharged March 25, 1865. Died at Old Town, Me., June 25, 1900. 

Benjamin M. Foss, 32, Orono, s., promoted Corporal January 
19, 1863, Sergeant February 13, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged June 3, 1865. Died at Orono, Me. 

Isaac Q. Freeze, 20, Lagrange, s., promoted Corporal January 
26, 1864, Sergeant August 31, 1864, ist Sergeant March 28, 1865; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Drowned in 
Richardson Lake, Me., August 26, 1866. 

''■' Thomas Gilbert, 19, Orono, s., wounded May 19, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Dexter, Me. 

John Gilpatrick, 20, Washington, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Boothbay, Me. 

Theodore H. Graffam, 20, Old Town, s., wounded May 19, 
1864; discharged December 8, 1864. Resides at Old Town, Me. 

Rufus Gross, 19, Old Town, s., promoted Corporal; killed 
June 18, 1864. 

William Grover, 27, Old Town, s., died June 2, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

Albert Guppy, 28, Corinth, s., promoted Corporal January 26, 
1863; Sergeant January 26, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged March 13, 1865. 

Andrew D. Hall, 43, Brewer, m., died of disease September 17, 
1864. 

John W. Ham, 27, Corinth, s., discharged December 6, 1862. 
Died at Corinth, Me., December 23, 1862. 

Selden Hancock, 36, Orono, m., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged January 9, 1865. Resides at Burnham, Me. 

Nicholas Harris, 24, Orono, s., wounded May 19, 1864; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. 

William Harris, 25, Mapleton, s., died of disease September 
26, 1862. 

James H. Harrison, 39, Old Town, m., killed June 18, 1864. 

James A. Hathaway, 2^:i,^ Lowell, m., killed June 18, 1864. 

John F. Hodgkins, 22, Old Town, s., promoted Corporal; died 
May 20, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY I. 



353 



Calvin L. Hutchins, 27, Old Town, s., wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged September 18, 1865. Resides at North Hancock, Me. 

Josiah M. Jordan, 28, Troy, s., discharged February i, 1864. 
Died at Togus, Me., July 24, 1890. 

Charles H. Knox, 44, Old Town, m., discharged June 27, 1863. 
Resides at Old Town, Me. 

Amos R. Lansel, 27, Orono, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Orono, Me. 

Edwin F. Lord, 19, Old Town, s., promoted Corporal January 
II, 1864, Sergeant August 31, 1864: wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Old Town, Me., December 7, 
1876. 

George B. McKechnie, 18, Alton, s., promoted Corporal; 
wounded April 6, 1865; discharged June 21, 1865. Resides at 
Danforth, Me. 

Albert W. Marsh, 32, Orono, m., promoted Corporal December 
31, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Melville C. Marsh, 22, Orono ,s., promoted Corporal August 31, 

1864, Sergeant December 31, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Orono, Me., May 2, 1891. 

Isaac J. Mayberry, 32, Old Town, m., died of disease July 15, 
1864. 

Joseph H. IMeader, 22, Vassalboro, s., died July i, 1864, of 
wounds received June 18. 

Anson C. Merrill, real name Anson Chapman, 28, Orono, s., 
died July 4, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Chesley L. Metcalf, 18, Old Town, s., promoted Corporal 
February 14, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 22, 

1865. Resides at San Francisco, Cal. 

Zina Michael, Jr., 18, Old Town, s., died July 27, 1864, oi 
wounds received June 18. 

Edward J. Milton, 18, Old Town, s., promoted Corporal Jan- 
uary II, 1864; w^ounded June 18, 1864; discharged ]\Iay 15, 1865. 
Resides at Old Towm, Me. 

James ]\L Moore, 19, Old Town, s., w^ounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged December 27, 1864. Died at Old Town, Me., Novem- 
ber 5, 1867. 



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THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY 



Richard Murray, 29, Woodstock, N. B., s., deserted May 29, 1863. 

Wentworth Nason, 24, Old Town, s., died of disease November 
6, 1862. 

lames M. Neal, 44, Orono, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Orono, Me. 

Thomas Neddo, 21, Orono, s., l<illed June 18, 1864. 

Edmund C. Parsons, 24, Orono, m., promoted Corporal Jan- 
uary 26, 1864 ; wounded May 19, 1864, and April 6, 1865 ; dis- 
charged June 21, 1865. 

Henry Pooler, 27, Orono, m., died January 29, 1865, ^^ wounds 
received May 19, 1864. 

Isaiah Randall, 18, Washburn, s., died August 2, 1864, of 
wounds received May 19. 

John L. Rollins, 21, Veazie, s., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged February 20, 1865. Resides at Veazie, Me. 

Leander Russell, 37, Orono, m., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged December 6, 1864. Died at Orono, Me., June 8, 1878. 

Arthur G. Sawyer, 19, Old Town, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged April 18, 1865. Resides at Madison, Me. 

Ira Scott, 26, Mapleton, s., died June 19, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

Oilman J. Shaw, 21, Levant, s., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged January 2, 1865. Resides at Lombardville, Stark Co., 111. 

Llewellyn H. Smith, 19, Old Town, s., wounded June 17, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Died at Stillwater, Me., July 21, 1903. 

Benjamin B. Soule, 30, Mapleton, m., killed May 19, 1864. 

Charles W. Southard, 24, Orono, s., promoted Corporal January 
II, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged August 8, 1865. 
Resides at Orono, Me. 

George F. Springer, 31, Old Town, m., promoted Artificer Jan- 
uary II, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Old Town, Me. 

Frank St. Pierre, 21, Orono, s., killed May 19, 1864. 
Charles H. Thompson, ^^, Old Town, m., mustered out June 6, 
1865. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY I. 355 

Alphonzo A. Tozier, 21, Veazie, s., promoted Corporal January 
26, 1863, Sergeant January 26, 1864; wounded June 17, 1864; pro- 
moted 2d Lieut. Co. G March 28, 1865, and transferred. See Co. G. 

John A. Trickey, 23, Old Town, m., died June 8, 1864, of 
wounds received May 19. 

George C. Waters, 18, Veazie, s., wounded May 19, 1864: dis- 
charged December i, 1864. Resides at Furgus Falls, Minn. 

True W. Wedgwood, 31, Orono, m., killed May 19, 1864. 

Horatio Whitten, 43, Bangor, m., discharged February i, 1864. 
Died at Togus, Me., April 18, 1889. 

Stephen Wilcox, Jr., 23, Mapleton, s., transferred to the Navy 
May 5, 1864, and discharged therefrom October 3, 1865. Died at 
Castle Hill, Me., June 12, 1894. 

Daniel W. Winchester, 18, Holden, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at East Surry, Me. 

Augustus Young, 20, Orono, s., taken prisoner March 25, 1865; 
paroled March 29, 1865 ; discharged June 30, 1865. Resides at 
Bangor, Me. 

Joined after November i, 1862. 

William H. Grant, 18, Bangor, s., mustered June 20, 1863 ; 
appointed Musician January 11, 1864; mustered out September ii, 
1865. 

Samuel P. Soule, 19, Old Town, s., mustered February 10, 1863; 
taken prisoner March 25, 1865 ; paroled March 29, 1865 ; dis- 
charged May 29, 1865. 

George B. Stinson, 20, Old Town, s., mustered April 8, 1863 ; 
wounded June 4, 1864 ; discharged May 4, 18(35. Died at Atlantic 
City, N. J. 

Joined after November i, 1863. 

Eli Andrews, 34, Newburg, m., mustered December 19, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 21, 1865. Resides at 
Caribou, Me. 

Alvin S. Archer, 19, Medway, s., mustered December 23, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged July 8, 1865. 



^-6 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Francis ]M. Archer, 25, IMedway, m., mustered December 2^, 
1S63 ; wounded and taken prisoner October 27, 1864; paroled Feb- 
ruary 5, 1865; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Cas- 
tle Hill, Me. 

Marcellus S. Atkins, 19, Peru, s., mustered December 23, 1863 ^ 
promoted Corporal September i, 1865 ; mustered out September n, 
1865. Resides at Peru, Me. 

William S. Averill, 18, Orono, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged May 11, 1865. 

Ephraim L. Brawn, t,t,, Old Town, m., mustered December 21, 
1863; w^ounded May 19 and June 18, 1864; mustered out Sep- 
tember II, 1865. Resides at Togus, Me. 

John Brown, 41, Vienna, m., mustered December 21, 1863; 
transferred to the Navy May 5, 1864. Resides at Belgrade, Me. 

Simeon Brown, 41, Atkinson, m., mustered December 23, 1863 : 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Orneville, Me. 

Charles S. Bunker, 30, Vienna, m., mustered December 21, 
1863 ; died June 25, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Alfred Carter, 21, Bangor, s., mustered December 24, 1863: 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Benjamin F. Cilley, 28, Newburg, m., mustered December 17, 
1863; died August 8, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Joshua L. Clark, 31, Wiscasset, s., mustered December 19, 
1863; promoted Artificer July 11, 1865; wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Howard A. Cleaveland, 21, Orrington, s., mustered November 
24, 1863; discharged March 8, 1864. Resides. at Thomaston, Me. 

Joseph W. Cottle, 20, A'eazie, s., mustered December 23, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged April 21, 1865. Died at A'eazie, 
Me., January 21, 1895. 

James Davis, 43, Lincoln, m., mustered December 15, 1863; 
taken prisoner March 25, 1865 ; paroled March 29, 1865 ; dis- 
charged July 31, 1865. Died at Dorchester, Mass., October 4, 1890. 

Moses Davis, 42, Winn, m., mustered December 15, 1863 ; 
wounded and taken prisoner March 25, 1865 ; died April i, 1865, 
of wounds received March 25. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY I. 357 

Frank L. Dearborn, i8, Athens, s., mustered December 4, 1863; 
died June 26, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Levi Doane, 18, Veazie, s., mustered November 25, 1863 ; died 
August 29, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

John A. Dowst, 18, Vienna, s., mustered December 21, 1863; 
M^ounded May 19, 1864; discharged May 22, 1865. Died at Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., November 30, 1893. 

Ithamar Emerson, 44, Hermon, m., mustered December 24, 
1863 ; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged February 3, 1865. Died 
at Hermon, Me., January 22, 1867. 

Edmund M. Erskine, 34, Alton, m., mustered November 21, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged May 25, 1865. Died at 
West Old Town, Me., January 6, 1895. 

Daniel J. Flanders, 20, Buxton, s., mustered December 19, 1863; 
promoted Corporal September i, 1865; wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Buxton Center, Me. 

Alverdo W. Ford, 18, Old Town, s., mustered December 24, 
1863: wounded May 19, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. March 
31, 1865. Resides at Orono, Me. 

Edgar M. Garey, 18, Old Town, s., mustered December 24, 1863; 
promoted Corporal August i, 1865, Sergeant September i, 1865 ; 
mustered out Septem.ber 11, 1865. Died at Boston, Mass., in 1895. 

James F. Getchell, 18, Orono, s., mustered October 20, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. and discharged 
therefrom September 19, 1865. 

Augustus Goodwin, 20, Orono, s., mustered November 17, 
1863; taken prisoner May 21, 1864; died in prison August 28, 
1864. 

Stillman Guppy, 23, Corinth, s., mustered December 16, 1863; 
died July, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Rollins Hammon, 38, Peru, s., mustered December 23, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1S64; discharged 1865. Resides at Lewiston, 
Maine. 

Charles H. Hardy, 20, Etna, s., mustered December 26, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 6, 1865. Resides at 
Presque Isle, Me. 



358 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

William Harlow, Jr., 29, Peru, s., mustered December 28, 1863; 
taken prisoner March 25, 1865 ; paroled March 29, 1865 ; dis- 
charged May 29, 1865. Resides at North Minneapolis, Minn. 

William L. Holmes, 32, Brighton, s., mustered December 21, 
1863 ; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged January 14, 1865. Died 
at Athens, Me., in 188.8. 

Upham A. Hoyt, 18, Vienna, s., mustered December 21, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged March 4, 1865. Resides at 
Belfast, Me. 

James S. Jewett, 21, Peru, s., mustered December 26, 1863; 
promoted Corporal August i, 1865; wounded June 18, 1864: mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Resides at North Jay, Me. 

job Kelley, 35, Newburg, s., mustered December 17, 1863; 
died July 11, 1864, of wounds received June iS. 

C'harles W. Kimball, 18, Vienna, s., mustered December 21, 
1863; promoted Corporal September i, 1865; mustered out Sep- 
tember IT, 1865. 

Warren R. Leach, 29, Levant, m., mustered December 26, 
1863; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Justin M. Leavitt, 18, Buxton, s., mustered December 19, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged April 4, 1865. Resides at 
p]uxton. Me. 

David Lord, 45, Orono, m., mustered January 2, 1864; died 
May 23, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

John McCombie, 22, Halifax, N. S., s., mustered October 7, 
1864: discharged May 17, 1865. 

John McLaughlin, 22, Boston, Mass., mustered October 7, 
1864; niustered out September 11, 1865. 

Greenleaf McPheters, 25, Orono, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
discharged May 11, 1865. Resides at Great Works, Me. 

Walter S. Malbon, 18, Skowhegan, s., mustered January 5, 
1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

James D. Marshall, 21, Bradford, s., mustered December 21, 
1863: promoted Corporal November 15, 1864, Sergeant April i, 
1865, Commissary Sergeant July i, 1865; mustered out September 
II, 1865. 



RECORDS (3F COMPANY I. 359 

Whitefield Mills, 19, Newbiirs^, s., mustered December 28, 
1863, killed May 19, 1864. 

Jerome Mitchell, 44, Cherryiield, m., mustered December 21, 
1863 ; died July 9, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

George F. Morton, 21, Albion, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
died of disease February 28, 1864. 

Alvin Overlook, 42, Hermon, m., mustered December 22, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged November 23, 1864. Resides 
at Hermon, Me. 

Daniel E. Owen, 19, Skowhegan, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Luther W. Packard, 24, W'inslow, m., mustered ])ecember 15, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal December i, 1864, Sergeant June i, 
1865 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Lawrence, Mass., 
May 2, 1876. 

William T. Partridge, ;^^, Winslow, m., mustered December 17, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged January 20, 1865. Died 
at Waterville, Me., May 22, 1892. 

Oliver Porter, 34, Old Town, m., mustered December 21, 1863; 
died of disease March 31, 1865. 

Lorenzo Proctor, 19, Edmunds, s., mustered January, 4, 1864; 
discharged March 3, 1864. Resides at Edmunds, Me. 

Henry Rowe, 34, Peru, m., mustered December 23, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 8, 1865. Resides at 
West Peru, Me. 

Isaac Sanborn, 27, Winslow, s., mustered December 15, 1863; 
promoted Corporal April i, 1865, Sergeant August 31, 1865; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Waterville, Me. 

Winthrop Shirland, 19, Winslow, s., mustered December 9, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged December 15, 1864. 
Died at Winslow, Me. 

George H. Smith, 18, Old Town, s., mustered December 21, 
1863; promoted Corporal April i, 1865, Sergeant September i, 
1865; wounded May 19 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Died in British Columbia, August 21, 1894. 



360 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

George E. Tibbetts, 18, Hermon, s., mustered December 22, 
1863; wounded May 19 and October 27, 1864; mustered out Sep- 
tember II, 1S65. Resides at Hermon, Me. 

Horatio Tibbetts, 23, Hermon, s., mustered December 22, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 14, 1865. Died at Her- 
mon, Me., Feb. 12, 1898. 

Albert Tucker, 30, Cherryfield, s., mustered December 13, 
1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

Daniel W. Tucker, 25, Cherryfield, m., mustered December 13, 
1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

Alexander Veancou, 18, Orono, s., mustered December 11, 
1863 ; died July 11, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Lorenzo Warren, 26, Old Town, m., mustered December 26, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; wounded and taken prisoner Octo- 
ber 27, 1864; died in prison November i, 1864, of wounds received 
October 27. 

William R. Washburn, 44, Brewer, m., mustered December i, 
1863; discharged June 13, 1865. Died at Brewer, Me., April 17, 
1890. 

Elisha Whittaker, 31, Milbridge, m., mustered December 12, 
1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

Randall N. Wilson, 22, Atkinson, s., mustered December 22, 
1863; discharged January 19, 1865. Resides at Kenduskeag, Me. 
Albert Withee, 18, Winslow, s., mustered December 9, 1863 ; 
discharged May 2, 1865. Died at Winslow, Me., April 14, 1866. 

Thomas B. Worcester, 22, Webster Plantation, m., mustered 
December 26, 1863; wounded May 19, 1864; di-scharged April 18, 
1865. Resides at Lee, Me. 

Leander R. Young, 18, Orono, s., mustered November 23, 1863 ; 
promoted Corporal August i, 1865; wounded May 19, 1864; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. 

Joined after November i, 1864. 

Commissioned Officers . 

Capt. Hudson Sawyer, Levant, joined by transfer from Co. G 

April 25, 1865 : Aid on Brigade Stafif from fall of 1S64 to June, 1865 ; 

breveted Major: mustered out September 11, 1865. He is now 

serving as Post Chaplain at Togus, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY I. 36 1 

2d Lieut. Abiather J. Knowles, Lagrange, joined by transfer 
from Co. L November 8, 1864; promoted ist Lieut. Co. K January 
16, 1865, and transferred. See Co. K. 

Enlisted Men. 

Charles Bradley, real name Thomas Warnock, 22, Portland, s., 
mustered October 2, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died 
at Bayonne, N. Y., May 9, 1885. 

Francis M. Campbell, 27, Greenbush, s., mustered October 11, 
1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

John Dailey, 25, Portland, s., mustered October 11, 1864; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. 

Daniel Lennon, 28, Lynn, Mass., mustered October 13, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865, 

Timothy Phillips, 21, Veazie, s., mustered September 30, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Eau Claire, Wis. 

John Ryan, 27, Ireland, m., mustered October 10, 1864; de- 
serted August 6, 1865. 

Michael Ryan, 24, Portland, s., mustered October 10, 1864; 
wounded April 6, 1865 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

John Smith, 25, Halifax, N. S., s., mustered September 29, 
1864; discharged June 6, 1865. 

Jerry Warren, 35, Ireland, s., mustered October 13, 1864; dis- 
charged June 6, 1865. 



362 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY, 



COMPANY K. 
As Mustered August 21, 1862. ■ 





(APT. WIIJJAM R. PATTAX(4ALL. 



Capt. CHARLES W. LENFEST. 



Captain WILLIAM R. PATTANGALL 

Joined as First Lieutenant, from Pembroke. Promoted Captain January 
I, 1863. He was an excellent officer. Though he had a strong presenti- 
ment that he should be killed in the first battle, he went boldly into the 
thickest of the fight and died like a hero. 

Captain CHARLES W. LENFEST 

Joined by promotion from First Lieutenant Company INI (see Company 
M). He was one of the captains who was prepared by service, winning 
promotion for merit. See the last chapter and his record. 





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RECORDS OF COMPANY K. 363 

Captain HUGH F. PORTER 

Joined as Sergeant, from Pembroke. Promoted First Sergeant, Second 
Lieutenant, and First Lieutenant. Commissioned Captain June 21, 1864, 
not mustered. Wounded June 18, 1864. Discharged December 14, 1864. 
He was a progressive, competent officer, always at his post, ready and effi- 
cient for duty. He was after service a prominent citizen of Pembroke to 
his death, May 10, 1897. 

First Lieutenant LUCIUS B. GIBSON. 
See Record. 






LiEi'T. CALVIX K. (iAKDNKK. Lif.it. FKEDEKICK ( ). TALBOT. 

Second Lieutenant CALVIN R. GARDNER 

EnHsted as private. Was promoted to Corporal and Sergeant, and to 
Second Lieutenant June 21, 1864. Was in all the service and battles of the 
Regiment till wounded, June 18, 1864.- Discharged December, 1864. He 
has since been a worthy and useful citizen of Pembroke. 

Second Lieutenant FREDERICK O. TALBOT 

Joined as private, from East Machias. Promoted Corporal December, 
1862, Sergeant January 10, 1864. First Sergeant 1864. and Second Lieutenant 
February 9, 1865. A good example of a progressive soldier, brave, intelli- 
gent, and capable in every duty. He would have attained higher command 
had his country needed him longer. His contribution greatly aided this 
work. Resides at East Machias. 

Twenty-seven men of the original members of this Company, 
including Captain Sabine, were recruited from Co. C, Coast Guards, 
Heavy Artillery, stationed at Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Me. Captain 
Sabine, then Pirst Lieutenant commanding, had been mustered into 



364 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

the United States service on December 4, 1861 ; Corporal Robert 
Smith and privates James Finn and Cornelius Nickerson on Decem- 
ber 14, 1 86 1, and the other twenty-three on December 10, 1861, 
namely: ist Sergeant Gershom C. Bibber, Sergeants John W. Pres- 
ley and Ezra Dean, Corporals Hiram F. Swett, Abner S. Farrow, 
Charles H. Moore, and Edward J. Gilligan; Musician James Mooney; 
privates Abijah Ayer, Elias Brewster, Jesse Brown, Parrion W. Cook, 
George E. Higgins, George Hunter, Edgar M. Johnson, John John- 
son, Jr., Andrew S. Ritchie, J. F. William Richter, John Robinson, 
James Sears, Richard Sears, Hiram Smith, and Andrew Tucker. 
Under a ruling of the War Department it was decided that this 
detachment of men were entitled to discharge after three years' ser- 
vice from their first muster in, and, accordingly, on January 14, 1865, 
those present were mustered out and received their discharges, and 
those who were absent sick or wounded were discharged as soon as 
their state of health would permit. 

Co77imissiojied Officers. 

Capt. George W. Sabine, 30, Eastport, m., promoted Major 
June 13, 1863, and transferred. See Field and Staff. 

ist Lieut. William R. Pattangall, t^'^., Pembroke, m., promoted 
Capt. December i, 1863; killed May 19, 1864. 

2d Lieut. Stephen C. Talbot, 27, East Machias, s., on Staff of 
Col. Morris in 1862, Acting Adjutant from January 12, 1863, pro- 
moted Major of the 31st Maine Infantry March 10, 1864, and 
transferred. Later promoted to Lieut. Col. of same regiment. 
Resides at New York City. 

Sergemits. 

Gershom C. Bibber, 25, Eastport, s., promoted 2d Lieutenant 
December i, 1863, and ist Lieut. January 21, 1864; killed May 19, 
1864. 

John W. Presley, 25, Eastport, m., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged March 25, 1865. Resides at Eastport, Me. 

Ezra Dean 44, Eastport, m., wounded May 19, 1864, wounded 
and prisoner October 27, 1864, exchanged: discharged May 2, 
1865. Died at Eastport, Me., December 30, 1902. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY K. 365 

Hugh F. Porter, 25, Pembroke, s., promoted ist Sergeant 
December, 1863, 2cl Lieut. January 21, 1S64, and ist Lieut. March 
23, 1864; commissioned Captain June 21, 1864, not mustered; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged December 14, 1864. Died at 
Pembroke, Me., May 10, 1897. 

Lucius B. Gibson, 29, Perry, s., promoted 2d Lieut. January 21, 
1864, and ist Lieut. June 21, 1S64; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged August 29, 1865. 

Corporals. 

Hiram F. Swett, 18, Eastport, s., promoted Sergeant November 

10, 1863, ist Sergeant January 26, 1864, and 2d Lieut. March 23, 
1864; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out January 14, 1865; 
was commissioned ist Lieut. Co. A. January 16, 1865, commission 
declined. 

Frederic Gardiner, 25, Dennysville, s., discharged November 

11, 1862. 

Daniel Kennedy, 36, Pembroke, m., died of disease July 25, 
1864. 

Abner S. P^arrow, 19, Eastport, s., died of disease October 28, 
1862. 

• Charles H. Moore, 18, Perry, s., promoted Sergeant November 
10, 1863, and ist Sergeant jNIarch 28, 1864; died May 24, 1864, of 
wounds received May 19; was commissioned ist Lieut. June 21, 
1864, nearly a month after he died. 

Robert Smith, 19, Eastport, s., promoted Sergeant November 
10, 1863; slightly wounded May 19, 1864; killed June 22, 1864. 

Charles Miller, 30, Eastport, s., deserted August 26, 1862, 

Edward J. Gilligan, 19, Eastport, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged October 17, 1864. 

ATusiciaJis. 

Ambrose A. Huntley, 23, East Machias, s., changed rank to 
private October i, 1862; promoted Corporal January, 1864; killed 
May 19, 1864. 

James Mooney, 21, Eastport, s., mustered out January 14, 1865. 
Died at Boston, Mass. 



^56 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

JVagoner. 

Nathaniel Crocker, Jr., 28, Machias, m., changed rank to pri- 
vate September 10, 1862 ; appointed wagoner January i, 1865; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Dixmont, Me. 

Privates. 

Charles H. Abbott, 2>3'> Edmunds, m., mustered out June 6, 
1865. Resides at Dennysville, Me. 

Abijah Ayer, 18, Charlotte, s., promoted Corporal June 9, 1864 ; 
wounded May 19, and June 18, 1864; discharged January 14, 1865. 

George E. Bradbury, 18, Clifton, s., killed May 19, 1864. 

Elias Brewster, 25, Eastport, m., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged April 5, 1865. 

Jesse Brown, 18, Perry, s., wounded June 18, 1864; discharged 
May 25, 1865. Resides at Halifax, Mass. 

Albert C. Buckmore, 44, Machias, m., Hospital Nurse, mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865. Died at Machias, Me., January 18, 1899. 

John Byrne, 21, Pembroke, s., died March 6, 1865, of wounds 
received June 18, 1864. 

John Cambridge, 19, Edmunds, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
killed on picket November 28, 1864. 

Calvin Cates, 22, Northfield, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died at Otisville, Mich., about 1882. 

Arthur S. Chickering, 18, Eastport, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Robert C. Clark, 21, Pembroke, s., promoted Corporal January 
26, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; transferred to V. R. C. and dis- 
charged therefrom July 30, 1865. Resides at Pembroke, Me. 

Samuel Collier, 2,^, Perry, m., killed May 19, 1864. 

Timothy Collins, 18, Eastport, s., died July 9, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

William Cone, 44, Charlotte, m., died of disease February 15, 
1864. 

Parrion W. Cook, 18, Eastport, s., wounded May 19, 1864 ; mus- 
tered out January 14, 1865. Resides at Rockland, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY K. 367 

Enoch S. Crosby, 21, East Machias, s., wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged January 8, 1865. K.esides at Machiasport, Me. 

Samuel J. Crosby, 19, East Machias, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at East Machias, Me. 

Eben Cushing, Jr., 18, Pembroke, s., deserted November 8, 1863. 

Edward W. Eye, 27, Pembroke, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Reuben C. Fickett, 22, Milbridge, s., killed May 19, 1864. 

James Finn, 18, Eastport, s., wounded May 19, 1864; pro- 
moted Corporal January 10, 1865; mustered out January 14, 1865. 
Resides at Soldiers' Home, Milwaukee, Wis. 

Caleb Gardiner, 28, Dennysville, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Resides at Dennysville, Me. 

Calvin R. Gardner, 28, Pembroke, m., promoted Corporal, Ser- 
geant, and 2d Lieut. June 21, 1864: wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged December 17, 1864. Resides at Pembroke, Me. 

Horace W. Getchell, 24, Marshfield, m., wounded June 18, 
1864; discharged June 6, 1865. Resides at Marshfield, Me. 

Andrew Hall, 39, Perry, m., promoted Corporal January 26, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 10, 1865. 

Enoch L. Hanscom, 31, Marshfield, m., promoted Corporal 
November 10, 1863, Sergeant January 26, 1864; wounded May 19, 
and June 18, 1864: transferred to V. R. C. and discharged there- 
from July 13, 1865. Resides at Marshfield, Me. 

Andrew J. Harmon, 27, Northfiekl, m., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged November, 23, 1864. Died at Northfield, Me., Septem- 
ber 12, 1895. 

George H. Hayward, ;^t,, Edmunds, m., wounded May 19, 1864 ; 
discharged May 20, 1865. Resides at Dennysville, Me. 

Jacob Henry, 18, Pembroke, s., promoted Corporal January 19, 
1864, and Sergeant in 1865; wounded June 16, 1864; discharged 
June 3, 1865. Resides at Boston, Mass. 

George E. Higgins, 35, Eastport, m., appointed Wagoner Sep- 
tember 10, 1862; discharged January 14, 1865. 

George W. Howe, 28, Pembroke, m., promoted Artificer; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 6, 1865. 



-.58 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

George Hunter, i8, Eastport, s., wounded June i8, 1864; dis- 
charged January 14, 1865. Died at Togus, Me., March 28, 1869. 

Charles T. Huntley, 19, East Machias, s., wounded May 19, 
1864 ; discharged March 4, 1865. Resides at Shelton, Wash. 

Christopher C. Huntley, 21, East Machias, s., promoted Cor- 
poral January 26, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged April 
18, 1865. Resides at East Machias, Me. 

James W. Huntley, 22, East Machias, s., promoted Corporal 
June 9, 1864, Sergeant January i, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864; 
mustered out June 6, 1865. Drowned at East Machias, Me., De- 
cember 16, 1 89 1. 

Edgar M. Johnson, 18, Robbinston, s., promoted Corporal 
January 10, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged January 14, 
1865. Resides at Terrell, Tex. 

John Johnson, Jr., 42, Eastport, m., promoted Corporal Sep- 
tember 13, 1862 ; died July 19, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Jotham J. Kennedy, 18, Pembroke, s., mustered out June 6, 
1865. Died at Biddeford, Me., February 17, 1889. 

Edward J. Kernan, 21, Eastport, s., promoted Corporal January 
I, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

William B. Kief, 22, Pembroke, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged June 28, 1865. Resides at Togus, Me. 

Edward B. Kilby, 27, Dennysville, s., promoted Corporal 
December 14, 1862, Sergeant January 10, 1864; wounded May 19, 
1864; taken prisoner September 9, 1864, exchanged February 
10, 1865 ; discharged June 13, 1865. Resides at Washington, D. C. 

Richard E. Lincoln, 20, Perry, s., discharged April 6, 1863. 
Died at Perry, Me., September 9, 1863. 

Sylvanus G. Lincoln, 20, Perry, s., died July 25, 1864, of 
wounds received June 18. 

Jeremiah Loring, 23, Perry, s., promoted Corporal early in 
1864; killed May 19, 1864. 

Reuben Lyon, 44, Pembroke, m., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged in 1865. Resides at Pembroke, Me. 

Patrick McGuire, 29, Pembroke, s., deserted May 7, 1863. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY K. 369 

Archibald McKenzie, 28, St. John, N. B., s., promoted Corporal 
January i, 1S65 ; wounded June 22, 1864; mustered out June 6, 
1865. Resides at 46 South St., Halifax, N. S. 

Thomas McLaughlin, 40, Charlotte, m,, promoted Corporal 
early in 1864 ; died of disease April 27, 1864. 

John D. Mailer, 37, Machias, m., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged March 4, 1865. Died at East Machias, Me., July 26, 1902. 

Joseph MohoUand, 36, Eastport, m., wounded June 17, 1864; 
discharged June 28, 1865. Died at Eastport, Me., January 30, 1901. 

George L. Motz, 19, Pembroke, s., died of disease November 
23, 1862. 

Henry W. Motz, 21, Pembroke, s., promoted Corporal early in 
1864; killed May 19, 1864. 

James C. Motz, 44, Pembroke, m., wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged June i, 1865. Died at Pembroke, Me., June 29, 1893. 

Raymond P. Motz, 18, Pembroke, s., wounded June 18, 1864 ; 
discharged May 15, 1865. Died at West Pembroke, Me., August 8, 
1901. 

Patrick Murphy, 28, Pembroke, m., died of disease March 14, 
1863. 

Cornelius Nickerson, 21, Eastport, s., promoted Corporal Jan- 
uary 10, 1864; wounded May 31, 1864; discharged January 14, 
1865. 

David Page, 44, Dennysville, m., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged June 10, 1865. Died at Edmunds, Me. 

Frederic Phinney, 44, Pembroke, m., discharged April 11, 
1864. Died at Pembroke, Me. 

Joseph Phinney, 42, Pembroke, m., mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Asa H. Phipps, 27, Charlotte, m., discharged May 17, 1865. 
Resides at Charlotte, Me. 

Josiah T. Potter, 37, Perry, m., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged March 30, 1865. Resides at South Robbinston, Me. 

J. F. William Richter, 35, Eastport, m., wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out January 14, 1865. Died at Perry, Me. 

Andrew S. Ritchie, 18, Perry, s., mustered out January 14, . 
1865. 



370 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Charles \V. Robbins, 28, Baileyville, s., wounded May 19, 
1864; discharged April 10, 1865. Resides at Medical Lake, 
Wash. 

John Robinson, 18, Eastpoit, s., wounded June 18, 1864 ; dis- 
charged January 13, 1865. Resides at Eastport, Me. 

James Sears, 43, Eastport, m., died August 4, 1864, of wounds 
received June 16. 

Richard Sears, 39, Eastport m., killed May 31, 1864. 

Isaac Shaw, 22, Edmunds, m., promoted Corporal January i, 
1865; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Re- 
sides at Princeton, Me. 

Hiram Smith, 18, Eastport, s., promoted Corporal January 19, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out January 14, 1865. 

Nelson S. Smith, 18, Perry, s., promoted Corporal January i, 
1865, Sergeant April i, 1865 ; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Charles H. Sylvia, 23, Marshfield, s., mustered out June 6, 
1865. Died at Edmunds, Me. 

Erederick O. Talbot, 18, East Machias, s., promoted Corporal 
December 14, 1862, Sergeant January 10, 1864, ist Sergeant in 
1864, 2d Lieut. February 9, 1865 ; slightly wounded in Fort Hell in 
October, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at East 
Machias, Me. 

Thomas Toohey, 29, Eastport, s., wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged June I, 1865. 

Samuel W. Trask, 41, Charlotte, m., discharged June 30, 1865. 
Died January 7, 1879. 

Andrew Tucker, 44, Eastport, m., appointed Musician October 
I, 1862 ; discharged January 14, 1865. Died at Togus, Me., 
September 4, 1884. 

Thomas Walton, t,c^, Perry, m., killed June 18, 1864. 

John T. Ward, 22, Eastport, m., promoted Corporal, Ser- 
geant January 26, 1864; w^ounded May 19 and June 18, 1864; 
died of disease March 10, 1865. 

Isaac Watson, 19, Perry, s., wounded May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged June 29, 1865. Resides at Portland, Me. 

John Whitney, 23, East Machias, s., discharged December 13, 
1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY K. 37 I 

David Wilbur, 34, Pembroke, m., promoted Corporal November 
10, 1863, Sergeant January 26, 1864; wounded and taken prisoner 
October 27, 1864; exchanged February 10, 1865; discharged July 
20, 1865. Resides at Pembroke, Me. 

George E. Wilder, 20, Pembroke, s., promoted Corporal January 
I, 1865; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. 
Died in 1893. 

William H. Wilder, 21, Dennysville, s., promoted Corporal 
January 26, 1864, ist Sergeant January i, 1865 ; wounded May 31, 
1864; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at West Pembroke, Me. 

Joined after November i, 1862. 

John Barrell, 21, New York, s., mustered July 7, 1863; 
wounded June 22, 1864; mustered out September n, 1865. 

Israel P. Benner, 18, Edmunds, s., mustered June 30, 1863 ; 
died June 25, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

James R. Cook, 36, Dennysville, m., mustered May 13, 1863 ; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Dennysville, Me. 

George T. Cox, 39, Pembroke, s., mustered February 25, 1863 ; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Robert H, Gibson, 32, Eastport, m., mustered May 13, 1863 ; 
slightly wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

William Horton, 24, Pembroke, m., mustered June 12, 1863; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Millage B. Keith, 21, Pembroke, s., mustered April 15, 1863; 
deserted June 5, 1863. 

Asa McFee, 21, Pembroke, s., mustered April 15, 1863; died 
of disease September 16, 1864. 

James T. Mack, 39, Calais, m., mustered May 13, 1863 ; killed 
May 19, 1864. 

Gustavus Malmquist, 29, Bangor, s., mustered January 27, 
1863; promoted Corporal January i, 1865, Sergeant July i, 1865; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides 
at Paola, Kan. 

Patrick O'Neil, 21, Pembroke, s., mustered April 15, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; deserted November ;^o, 1864. 



372 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Walter Owen, 38, Edmunds, m., mustered February 25, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 27, 1865. Died at 
Edmunds, Me. 

Charles E. Reynolds, 18, Dennysville, s., mustered February 
25, 1863 ; promoted Corporal July i, 1865; mustered out September 
II, 1865. Died at Dennysville, Me. 

Frederick F, Reynolds, 18, Edmunds, s., mustered March 20, 
1863; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Seattle, Wash. 

John G. Wilder, 18, Dennysville, s., mustered March 20, 1863: 
wounded June 17, 1864, dischargd June 6, 1865. 

Joined after November i, 1863. 

John F. Ames, 18, Corinth, s., mustered December 15, 1863; 
discharged May 11, 1865. Resides at Kenduskeag, I\Ie. 

Henry E. Archer, 19, Cherryfield, s., mustered December 17, 
1863 ; died of disease January 26, 1864. 

Philander C. Brawn, 21, Corinth, s., mustered December 15, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged October 17, 1865. 

John W. Bugbee, 18, Perry, s., mustered December 26, 1863 ; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died 
in California. 

Henry B. Carver, 36, Searsport, s., mustered December 19, 
1863; discharged September 11, 1865. Died at Sailors' Snug 
Harbor, New York City, December 25, 1895. 

Alonzo J. W. S. Cook, 28, Blanchard, m., mustered December 
16, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; killed April_6, 1865. 

John E. Corbett, 18, Eastport, s., mustered January 9, 1864; 
promoted Corporal July i, 1865; wounded June 18, and again in 
Fort Hell in September, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Moses P. Corson, t,;^, Bangor, m., mustered December 19, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 5, 1865. Died March 6, 
1889. 

Benjamin L. Crowell, 36, Corinth, m., mustered December 15, 
1863; died of disease January 28, 1864. 

Edward Crowell, 18, Searsport, s., mustered December 18, 
1863; died June 20, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY K. 373 

John H. Dearborn, 18, Bangor, s., mustered December 15, 
1863; promoted Corporal January i, 1865, and Sergeant July i, 
1865; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September n, 1865. 
Died at Hermon, Me., December 2, 1876. 

Robert H, Debeck, 20, Winterport, s., mustered December 8, 
1863; promoted Corporal July i, 1865; mustered out September 
II, 1865. Resides at Cumberland Mills, Me. 

John J. Dority, 27, Dedham, m., mustered December 16, 1863; 
died May 25, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Horace E. Ellis, 21, Swanville, s., mustered December 21, 1863 ; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged May 3, 1865. 

Judson P. Ellis, 20, Belfast, s., mustered December 12, 1863 ; 
discharged May 25, 1865. Resides at South China, Me. 

Hiram Farley, 18, Dennysville, s., mustered January 13, 1864; 
slightly wounded May 31, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; dis- 
charged May 5, 1865. Resides at Dennysville, Me. 

John Fisher, 37, Pembroke, m., mustered November 25, 1863 ; 
wounded June 17, 1864; discharged March 20, 1865. Died at 
Calais, Me. 

Charles J. Hatch, 31, Ellsworth, m., mustered December 17, 
1863; mustered out September n, 1865. Resides at Waldo, Me. 

Horace Howes, 36, Dixmont, s., mustered December 14, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Re- 
sides at Dixmont Center, Me. 

Barnet N. Jewell, 30, Dixmont, m., mustered December 21, 
1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Died at Troy, Me., December 20, 1867. 

David S. Jewell, 27, Dixmont, m., mustered December 14, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal January i, 1865, Sergeant July i, 1865 ; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1S65. Re- 
sides at Hampden, Me. 

George W. Jewell, 24, Dixmont, s., mustered December 21, 
1863 : wounded May 19, 1864 ; discharged March 23, 1865. Died 
at Dixmont, Me., November 12, 1874. 

Reuben F. Jordan, 18, Otis, s., mustered December 7, 1863 ; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Ellsworth Falls, Me. 



374 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Taylor Larrabee, i8, Frankfort, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Eb'jah Lincoln, 24, Pembroke, m., mustered December 15, 
1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Isaiah L. Lincoln, 34, Pembroke, m., mustered December 11, 
1863 ; appointed Artificer in 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. 

Daniel Littlefield, 19, Winterport, s., mustered December 8, 
1863; wounded May 19, i864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at Waterville, Me. 

Nehemiah Littlefield, 27, Swanville, m., mustered December 21, 
1863 ; injured by a team at the "Wagon train" May 19, 1864; dis- 
charged May 16, 1865. Resides at Newburg, Me. 

Patrick McCarthy, 38, New Limerick, m., mustered December 
19, 1863; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 
1865. Died at Togus, Me., August i, 1892. 

Samuel G. McCollough, 32, Falmouth, m., mustered December 
14, 1863 ; died August 30, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Barnard McDivit, 35, New Brunswick, s., mustered December 
22, 1863 ; wounded May 19, 1864 ; deserted July 30, 1864. 

William S. McKellar, 21, Pembroke, m., mustered January 15, 
1864: discharged June 6, 1865. 

Francis McLaughlin, 26, Richmond, N. B., mustered December 
17, 1863; wounded May 19, 1864; deserted January i, 1865. Re- 
sides at Houlton, Me. 

Ezekiel Merrithew, 37, Searsport, m., mustered December 21, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged -March 23, 1865. 
Resides at Belfast, Me. 

Elbridge G. Nelson, 22, Frankfort, m., mustered December 17, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at Winterport, Me. 

Francis O'Brien, 41, Bangor, m., mustered December 16, 1863; 
deserted March 26, 1864. 

Frederick W. Patterson, 18, Swanville, s., mustered December 
21, 1863 : died June 20, 1864, of wounds received [une 18. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY K. 375 

Simeon B. Piper, iS, Monroe, s., mustered December i8, 1863 ; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Newbury, Penn., about 
1890. 

Warren L. Piper, 22, Monroe, s., mustered December 18, 1863 ; 
died of disease April 20, 1864, 

Henry Pomroy, 23, Bangor, m., joined by transfer from Co. D 
in January 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged May 28, i''^65. 

George P. Potter, 29, Eastport, m., mustered December 26, 
1863 ; died May 25, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

James Rogers, 18, Bangor, s., mustered December 19. 1863 ; 
promoted Corporal July i, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; mustered 
out September 11, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Libby H. Smith, 45, Shapleigh, m., mustered January;, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Stephen M. Smith, 18, Waterboro, s., mustered January 12, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged March 20, 1865. 

William A. Smith, 18, Shapleigh, s., mustered January 6, 1864; 
died of disease April 12, 1865. 

x*\lfred M. Sprague, 21, Bangor, m., mustered December 12, 
1863 ; died of disease January 2S, 1864. 

John T. Sprague, 29, Veazie, m., mustered December 16, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864, and April 6, 1865 ; discharged July 24, 1865. 

Ephraim W. Steward, 37, Bangor, m., mustered December 11, 
1863; wounded May 19 and June 18, 1864; discharged May 20, 
1865. 

Nathaniel Tread well, Jr., 18, Burlington s., mustered Decem- 
ber 16, 1863; killed May 19, 1864. 

Albion K. Tripp, 38, Searsport, m., mustered December 19, 
1863; died of disease December 22, 1864. 

Brazilla P. Whiting, 24, Swanville, m., mustered December 17, 
1863; killed May 19, 1864. 

Thomas H. Woodman, 22, Searsport, m., mustered December 
19, 1863; killed on picket September 24, 1864. 

Eranklin York, 18, Dixmont, s., mustered December 14, 1863 ; 
killed May 19, 1864. 



376 the first maine heavy artillery. 

Joined after November i, 1864. 
Co7?imissiofied Officers. 

Capt. Charles \\\ Lenfest, commissioned January 16, 1865, 
from ist Lieut. Co. M; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides 
at Anoka, Minn. 

ist Lieut. Abiather J. Knowles, commissioned January 16, 1865, 
from 2d Lieut. Co. I; promoted Capt. Co. D August 15, 1865, and 
transferred. See Co. D. 

Enlisted Men. 

George M. Chase, 18, Pembroke, s., mustered December 26, 
1863; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Daniel Dinneen, 24, Augusta, s., mustered August 13, 1864; 
deserted and in arrest at muster out. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY L. 

COMPANY L. 

As Organized in Feijruarv, 1864. 



377 




(APT. WILLIAT^t T. PARKER. 






("APT. HORATIO N. P. SPOOXER. 



Captain WILLIAM T. PARKER. 

Formerly First Lieutenant of Company C, a scholarly gentleman of 
rare ability. He made a good Company from a large number of recruits in 
a short time. His untimely death in battle, June 19, 1S64, cast a great sorrow 
upon us all. 

Captain HORATIO N. P. SPOONER. 

From Sergeant in Company F, a prompt, energetic, ambitious soldier. 
He was mortally wounded June 18, and died July 10, 1864. Commissioned 
Captain, not mustered. 







Capt. THOMAS FOSTER. 



Capt. benjamin F. OAKES. 



278 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Captain THOMAS FOSTER 

Joined from Hampden, as recruit. First Lieutenant January 25, 1864. 
Commissioned Captain, not mustered. Wounded June 18, 1864, and dis- 
charged September 12, 1864. 

Captain BENJAMIN F. OAKES. 

Commissioned from First Lieutenant, Company I (see record, Company 
I ). He was one of the Captains who earned promotion through grades by 
service, a thoroughly trained, accompHshed officer and soldier. In all the 
battles of the Regiment. Received medal of honor for bravery in battle of 
Boydton Road, October 27, 1864. Has been a prominent citizen and post- 
master of East Ta was, Minn., where he resides. Has contributed largely 
to this work. 





LiETT. GEORdE E. I)<)I)(4E. Liettt. (IEORGE J. BRE^VER. 

First Lieutenant GEORGE E. DODGE 

Joined by transfer from Corporal, Company F. See his excellent record. 
Companies L and F. Is a prominent citizen of Carmel, where he resides. 

First Lieutenant GEORGE J BREWER. 
See hill record of this Company, no other data. 

First Lieutenant EDWARD L. WORCESTER. 
.See record, no other data. 

Second Lieutenant GEORGE H. OAKES 

Joined as Sergeant, by promotion from Company I. Promoted Second 
Lieutenant July 27, 1864 (see record, Companies I and L). Resides at 
Bangor, v^iiere he is a prosi:»erous business man. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY L. 379 



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Lieut. EI>WAKD L. AVORCESTER. Lieut. GE()R(4E H. OAKES. 

Commissioned Officers. 

Capt. William T. Parker, Ellsworth, commissioned January 25, 

1864, from ist Lieut. Co. C; killed May 19, 1864. 

I St Lieut. Horatio N. P. Spooner, Levant, commissioned Janu- 
ary 25, 1864, from Sergeant Co. F, commissioned Capt. June 21, 1864, 
not mustered; died July 10, 1864, from wounds received June 18. 

ist Lieut. Thomas Foster, 35, Hampden, s., mustered as a re- 
cruit December 24, 1863, commissioned January 25, 1864, commis- 
sioned Capt. July 27, 1864, not mustered; wounded June 18, 1864; 
discharged September 12, 1864. 

2d Lieut. George J. Brewer, Robbinston, commissioned January 
25, 1864, from private Co. D, commissioned ist Lieut. June 21, 1864, 
not mustered; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged January 13, 

1865. Died at Washington, D, C, September 3, 1899. 

2d Lieut. Wilmot T. A^ickery, Glenburn, commissioned January 
25, 1864, from Sergeant Co. B; died May 26, 1864, of wounds 
received May 19. 

Sergeants. 

George E. Dodge, Carmel, joined by transfer from Corporal Co. 
F February i, 1864: wounded May 19, June 18, and June 22, 1864; 
promoted 2d Lieut. June 21, and ist Lieut. July 27, 1864; mustered 
out September 11, 1865. Resides at Carmel, Me. 



380 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Charles C. Morse, 24, Old Town, m., mustered December 24, 
1863; commissioned 2d Lieut. June 21, 1864; died June 19, 1864, 
of wounds received June 18. 

Joseph D. Sawyer, 29, Old Town, m., mustered December 31, 
1863 ; discharged January 14, 1865. Died September 26, 1894. 

Cassius C. Roberts, 18, Stockton, s., mustered December t,o, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; promoted 2d Lieut. July 27, 1864, 
and I St Lieut. Co. B April 25, 1865, and transferred. See Co. B. 

Ceorge B. Derby, 31, Old Town, m., mustered December 24, 
1863; died of disease March 12, 1864. 

Arthur D. Chase, 30, Fayette, m., mustered January i, 1864; 
discharged July 26, 1865. Resides at Fayette, Me. 

George H. Oakes, Old Town, joined by transfer from Corporal 
Co. I; wounded June 5, 1864; promoted 2d Lieut. July 27, 1864; 
discharged November 23, 1864. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

Abiather J. Knowles, ^^, Lagrange, m., mustered January 4, 
1864; wounded June 18, 1864; promoted 2d Lieut. Co. I Novem- 
ber 8, 1864, and transferred. See Co. L 

Corporals. 

George C. Cross, 30, Auburn, m., mustered January 4, 1864: 
killed June 18, 1864. 

James P. Newell, 19, Bath, s., mustered December 31, 1863 ; 
taken prisoner May 28, 1864; died in prison about August i, 1864 

Aurelius H. Patterson, 21, Belfast, s., mustered December 28, 
1863; promoted Sergeant May 19, 1864; wounded June 18, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Fields Baston, 28, Levant, m., mustered December 26, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

David F. Oilman, 23, Newport, m., mustered December 31, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 26, 1865. Died at 
Newport, Me., July 22, 1902. 

Richard B. Creasey, 23, Morrill, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Charles F. Johnson, 27, Bath, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
deserted March 18, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY L. 38 1 

George F. Stacy, 26, Bath, s., mustered December 31, 1863 ; 
promoted Sergeant July 10, 1864, Quartermaster Sergeant Decem- 
ber 27, 1864, ist Sergeant February 18, 1865 ; mustered out 
September 11, 1865. Resides at Bath, Me. 

James R. Creasey, 26, Bath, m., mustered January i, 1864; 
promoted Sergeant November i, 1864, wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Bath, Me. 

Joseph A. Pitcher, 21, Northport, s., mustered December 24, 
1863 ; died of disease February 21, 1864. 

Musicians. 

Albro M. Perkins, 18, Bangor, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
discharged May 19, 1865. 

Albert S. Randlett, 18, Bangor, s., mustered December 28, 
1863; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Artificers. 

Andrew J. Crooker, 27, Stockton, m., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; discharged January 14, 1865. Resides at Winterport, Me. 

John M. Hamlin, 32, Hampden, m., mustered December 26, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged July 1, 1865. Died at 
Bangor, Me., January 9, 1889. 

Privates. 

Isaac Adams, 19, Bowdoinham, s., mustered December 31, 
1863 ; died September 28, 1864, of wounds received September 24. 

Marcus M. Alley, 18, Eden, s., mustered December 29, 1863 ; 
taken prisoner June 22, 1864, exchanged; discharged July 17, 1865. 

Charles E. Ames, 18, Chelsea, s., mustered January 2, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Chelsea, Me. 

Willard Andrews, 21, Cutler, s., mustered January 6, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. April 28, 1865. 

Alvah Babbidge, 21, Trenton, s., mustered December 30, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at Rockland, Me. 



382 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY, 



Albion p. Beattie, 36, Bethel, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Rumford Center, 
Me., about 1892. 

(jeorge W. Beede, 23, Levant, m., mustered December 29, 
1863 ; died July 30, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

William Berry, 22, Greenwood, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged September 13, 1865. Died at 
Lisbon Falls, Me., May 15, 1895. 

John Bigelow, 28, Corinna, m., mustered December 29, 1863 ; 
wounded September 29, 1864; discharged June 2, 1865. Resides 
at Corinna, Me. 

John H. Booker, 21, Hermon, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
died January 5, 1865, of wounds received June 18, 1864. 

Daniel O. Bowen, 21, Morrill, s., mustered January 2, 1864; 
promoted Corporal; wounded May 19, 1864; with Sergeant Thomas 
B. Gifford of Company A, was in action at Fort Stevens at the time 
of Early's raid on Washington, serving in the Provisional Battalion; 
promoted Sergeant September i, 1864, 2d Lieut. Co. G February 
9, 1865, and transferred. See Co. G. 

Ephraim Bowley, 29, Hope, m., mustered January i, 1864; 
died May 28, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Kingsbury W. Bowley, 18, Hope, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
died July 16, 1864, of M'ounds received June 18. 

Virgil D. Bowley, 18, Hope, s., mustered January 4, 1864: 
promoted Corporal; wounded May 19, 1864; killed October 27, 
1864. 

lohn F. Boynton, 22, Buxton, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. January 20, 
1865. 

Otis V). Boynton, 18, Palermo, s., mustered December 31, 1863; 
died July 10, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

John J. Bragdon, 24, Poland, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
died of disease July 25, 1864. 

Benjamin L. Bridges, 19, Dover, s., mustered December 30, 
1863 ; died of disease August 28, 1864. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY L. 383 

Charles R. Brown, i8, Hersey, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
wounded March 25, 1865; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at Kitchi, Mich. 

George M. Brown, 22, Bath, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864 ; transferred to the A^. R. C. November 2, 
1864, and discharged therefrom September 15, 1865. 

Homer P. Brown, 32, Richmond, m., mustered December 31, 
1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Richmond, Me., 
about 1 88 1. 

John H. Brown, 19, Bath, s., mustered December 31, 1863; 
promoted Corporal March 19, 1864, Sergeant November i, 1864, 
Q. M. Sergeant February 25, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Bath, Me. 

Webster Brown, 18, Bath, s., mustered December 31, 1863; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Charles M. Bryant, 19, Woodstock, s., mustered January 5, 
1864: transferred to the V. R. C. January i, 1865, and discharged 
therefrom September 4, 1865. Resides at Saunk Center, Minn. 

Joseph A. Burlingame, 21, Old Town, s., mustered December 
23, 1863; promoted Corporal 1864, Sergeant April 7, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; taken prisoner June 22, 1864, exchanged; 
discharged June 16, 1865. Died at Portland, Ore., May 26, 1902. 

Charles Call, 27, Calais, s., mustered January i, 1864; wounded 
May 19, 1864; discharged March 20, 1865. Died at Eastport, Me., 
July 15, 1901. 

Franklin Campbell, 18, Calais, s., mustered January i, 1864; 
killed on picket May 28, 1864. 

Charles H. Carson, 18, Harmony, s., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; died of disease April 19, 1864. 

Heman Case, 18, Lubec, s., mustered January i, 1864; wounded 
May 19, and August 28, 1864; mustered out September n, 1865. 
Died August 24, 1887. 

Edward P. Chaplin, 25, Waterford, s., mustered January i, 
1864; killed May 19, 1864. 

Franklin Chapman, 21, Newburg, s., mustered December 30, 
1863 ; died June 25, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 



^84 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

David A. Chase, 21, Swanville, s., mustered December 28, 
1863; promoted Corporal; died September 21, 1864, of wounds 
received September 18. 

Romulus Clark, 19, Northport, s., mustered December 29, 1863 ; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at East Boston, Mass., 
May 19, 1 89 1. 

Erastus B. Clements, 18, Waldo, s., mustered December 31, 
1863 ; died of disease August 31, 1864. 

Edwin O. Cole, 18, Guilford, s., mustered December 31, 1863; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Manchester, Mass., 
about 1887. 

Charles F. Cowan, 18, Hampden, s., mustered January 2, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864, and March 25, 1865; discharged June 3, 
1865. Resides at West Hampden, Me. 

James S. Crooker, 24, Stockton, m., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged January 19, 1865, Died 
at Stockton Springs, Me., in 1867. 

John L. Crooker, 18, Stockton, s., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; died June 24, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Waldemar Dahl, 18, Stockton, s., mustered December 30, 1863; 
transferred to the Navy December 3, 1864. Resides at Copenhagen, 
Denmark, Europe. 

Dorendo Dickey, 18, Stockton, s., mustered January 2, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Reno, Nev. 

William Dilling, 34, Mars Hill, m., mustered December 31, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; deserted August 15, 1864. 

William D. Dixon, 34, Mercer, s,, mustered January 2, 1864; 
promoted Corporal June 6, 1864, Sergeant January 14, 1865; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September n, 1865. 

Charles Downs, 21, Springfield, s., mustered November 21, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 3, 1865. Resides 
at Springfield, Me. 

Frank N. Downs, 18, Mercer, s., mustered January i, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

John D. Edes, 18, Guilford, s., mustered December 31, 1863: 
wounded June 16, 1864; discharged March 23, 1865. Resides at 
Guilford, Me. 



RLCORDS OF COMPANY L. 385 

Nelson W. Edwards, i8, Poland, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
died June 23, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Hiram S. Emerson, 32, Newburg, s., mustered December 27, 
1863 ; died May 31, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Daniel G. Foster, 19, Hampden, s., mustered December 24, 
1863; died July 7, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Levi W. French, 31, Greenwood, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged December 3, 1864. Died at 
West Mount Vernon, Me., April 23, 1899. 

Charles S. George, 22, New Sharon, s., mustered January 2, 
1864; died June 16, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Hiram J. Grant, 28, Stockton, m., mustered December 28, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864. ; discharged June 16, 1865. K.esides at 
Searsport, Me. 

Daniel Greene, 23, Waterford, m., mustered January 11, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged April 18, 1865. Died at 
Stratham, N. H., October 2, 1900, 

Austin P. Griffin, 18, Stockton, s., mustered December 30, 1863 ; 
died of disease May 31, 1864. 

James W. Hall, 25, Bethel, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged September 20, 1865. Resides 
at Natick, Mass. 

David B. Hamor, 18, Eden, s., mustered December 29, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; died of disease May 8, 1865. 

Edward Hamor, 19, Eden, s., mustered December 29, 1863; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Stephen Harris, 18, Greenbush, s., mustered December 29, 
1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

Henry A. Higgins, 29, Hermon, m., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal January i, 1865 ; wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Moses G. How^ard, 18, Brownville, s., mustered December 29, 
1863; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged January 2, 1865. Re- 
sides at Brownville, Me. 

Thornton McD. Howard, 20, Brownville, s., mustered Decem- 
ber 29, 1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged October 6, 1865. 
Died at Kingman, Me., October 21, 1901. 



386 THK FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Elisha James. Jr., 35, Gardiner, m., mustered December 30, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 30, 1865. Resides 
at Sidney, Me. 

Hiram S. James, 35, Pittston, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
wounded June 5, 1864; discharged June 14, 1865. Died April 10, 
1890. 

William Judkins, 31, Abbot, m., mustered December 31, 1863 ; 
appointed Artificer January 20, 1865; wounded June 18, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Sun Prairie, Wis. 

Daniel W. Kilbourne, 21, Waterford, s., mustered January i, 
1864; died June 2, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

William W. Kilbourne, 26, Waterford, s., mustered January i, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; appointed Artificer July i, 1865; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Sylvester King, 38, Lee, m., mustered January 4, 1864: dis- 
charged June 14, 1865, Resides at Lakeville Plantation, Me. 

William King, 38, Pittston, m., mustered January 2, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

Russell L. Knight, 18, Searsmont, s., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864; died of disease July 10, 1865. 

George C. Knowles, 21, Thomaston, s., mustered December 30, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal; killed October 27, 1864. 

Frank G. Lancaster, 18, Stockton, s., mustered January 4, 
1864; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged February 16, 1865. 
Resides at Crescent Beach, Mass. 

Benjamin F. Larrabee, 20, Baldwin, s., mustered January 5, 
1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

George F. Lilly, 18, Dyer Brook, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
discharged September 11, 1865. Resides at Smyrna Mills, Me. 

Stephen O. Lilly, 19, Dyer PJrook, s., mustered January 2, 1864: 
wounded May 19, 1864: discharged April 26, 1865. Resides at 
East Bangor, Me. 

Joseph C. Love, 23, Bath, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged July i, 1865. 

George W^ Luce, 18, Bath, s., mustered January 5, 1864; pro- 
moted Corporal December 29, 1864; wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. l^esides at Bath, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY L. 387 

Herrick Lufkin, 27, Winterport, m., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal January i, 1865, Sergeant March i, 
1865; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 1 1, 1865. 
Died August 8, 1891. 

Winslow H. Mclntire, 21, Sidney, s., mustered December 28, 
1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

George W. Maddox, 42, Ellsworth, m., mustered January 4, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged May 31, 1865. Died 
February 17, 1883. 

Robert A. Martin, 26, Hope, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
promoted Corporal, Sergeant January 27, 1865; wounded June 18, 
1864; discharged June 5, 1865. Died at Hope, Me., about 1882. 

John V. Maxfield, 18, Guilford, s., mustered December 31, 
1863; wounded May 19, and September 24, 1864; mustered 
out September 11, 1865. Died at Guilford, Me., June 8, 1901. 

Joseph R. Mears, 30, Morrill, m,, mustered January 9, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged December 20, 1864. Died at 
Morrill, Me., February i, 1902. 

Willard Merriam, 28, Morrill, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
died July 24, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Alfred Moore, 28, Dover, m., mustered January i, 1864; dis- 
charged June 15, 1865. Resides at P^mmet, Benito Co., Cal. 

Henry S. Moulton, 18, Stockton, s., mustered December 30, 
1863 ; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at Stockton Springs, Me. 

Charles H. Nason, 25, Sidney, m., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; died of disease August i, 1864. 

Henry H. Newman, 19, Eden, s., mustered December 29, 1863 ; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Loomis T. Nickerson, 19, Swanville, s., mustered December 28, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864: killed June 18, 1864. 

Nathan E. Nickerson, 18, Swanville, s., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; wounded May 19, 1864 ; transferred to the V. R. C. April 
16, 1865, and discharged therefrom October 9, 1865. 

Charles H. Noyes, 21, Hersey, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
promoted Corporal June 4, 1864: wounded May 19, 1864: dis- 
charged May 23, 1865. Died about 1892. 



^88 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

William J. O'Brien, i8, Lewiston, s., mustered January i, 1864; 
appointed :vrusician ; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Albert J. Osgood, 19, Bangor, s., mustered December 28, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

David Owen, 18, Brownville, s., mustered December 29, 1863 ; 
died of disease February 23, 1864. 

\Mllard Page, 21, Frankfort, m., mustered December 30, 1863 ; 
wounded June 4, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides 
at Hallowell, Me. 

Alfred P. Patterson, 25, Northport, m., mustered January 2, 
1864; killed June 18, 1864. 

Henry A. Patterson, 18, Belfast, s., mustered December 28, 
1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

Rufus P^. Patterson, 27, Northport, m., mustered December 31, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal January i, 1865 ; wounded June 18, 1864 ; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Northport, Me. 

Alfred K. Paul, 18, Morrill, s., mustered January 11, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864 ; transferred to the V. R. C. January 20, 
1865, and discharged therefrom November 15, 1865. Resides at 
Boston, Mass. 

John E. Potter, 18, Bath, s., mustered January i, 1864 ; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Nathaniel N. Pratt, 27, Richmond, m., mustered December 30, 

1863 ; promoted Corporal December 29, 1864; wounded June 18, 
1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Charles E. Prescott, 27, Williamsburg, m., mustered January i, 

1864 ; died June 18, 1864, of wounds received June 17. 

John H. (^uimby, 21, Chesterville, s,, mustered January i, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. Feb- 
ruary 8, 1865, and discharged therefrom June 10, 1865. 

Joseph V. Rackliff, 24, Hampden, m., mustered December 31, 
1863 ; died of disease July i, 1864. 

Emery O. Reynolds, 18, Dennysville, s., mustered January 5, 
1864; died July 18, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

William H. Richmond, 28, Fayette, m., mustered January i, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged May 23, 1865. Resides 
at Livermore Center, Me. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY L. 389 

William F. Rideout, 21, Belfast, s., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; killed June 18, 1864. 

John C. Rogers, 28, Gilead, s., mustered January 4, 1864 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June i, 1865. 

Charles W. Sanderson, 21, Sidney, s., mustered December 28, 
1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

Freeman C. Sawyer, 31, Hermon, m., mustered December 31, 
1863 : died of disease April 18, 1864. 

Omar Shaw, 21, Stetson, s., mustered December 30, 1863; 
died July 9, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Isaiah Simpson, 19, Bath, s., mustered January 5, 1864; pro- 
moted Corporal September i, 1864; mustered out September 11, 
1865. Died at Magnolia, Fla., November 14, 1875. 

Daniel Smith, 18, Waterford, s., mustered January i, 1864; 
died of disease March i, 1864. 

Stephen M. Sparrow, 27, Winterport, s., mustered December 
30, 1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

William E. Speed, 19, Belfast, s., mustered December 29, 1863; 
discharged June 26, 1865. Died at Chicago, 111. 

Nathan S. Stanley, 30, Eden, m., mustered December 29, 1863; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Joseph F. Staples, 25, Stockton, s., mustered December 29, 
1863 ^ mustered out September 11, 1865. Lost at sea. 

Isaac E. Stevens, 18, Guilford, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

James H. Stinson, 18, Belfast, s.-, mustered December 28, 1863; 
wounded May 19 and June t8, 1864; discharged December 8, 
1864. Resides at Belfast, Me. 

John F. Stinson, 21, Bath, s., mustered January 5, 1864; dis- 
charged November 13, 1865. 

Oscar Storer, 19, Morrill, s., mustered January 4, 1864; died 
July 18, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Benjamin C. Studley, 18, Thomaston, s., mustered January 2, 
1864; promoted Corporal December 29, 1864: wounded May 19, 
1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Rockland, 
Maine. 



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THE FIRST :\IAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



William H. Talbot, i8, Bath, s., nuistered December 31, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged March 20, 1865. Resides at 
Bath, Me. 

George A. Tibbetts, 21, Bangor, s., mustered December 28, 
1863: died July i, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Horace Tibbetts, 21, Hermon, s., mustered December 29, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died 
at Hermon, Me. 

James H. Towle, 21, Buxton, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged January 20, 1865. Resides at 
West Buxton, Me. 

Benson L. Trundy, 28, Dover, s., mustered December 29, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at Garland, Me. 

Henry G. Turner, 18, Bath, s., mustered January 5, 1864; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Bath, Me. 

Alonzo D. Twombly, 24, Befast, m., mustered December 10, 
1863; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Belfast, Me., 
May 25, 1903. 

Irad Walker, Jr., 25, Hampden, s., mustered December 26, 
1863; killed May 19, 1864. 

Horace C. Webber, 28, Monroe, m., mustered December 22, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged January 13, 1865. 
Resides at Monroe, Me. 

Artemas D. Weed, 19, Searsmont, s., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; promoted Corporal January i, 1865 ; mustered out September 
II, 1865. Resides at Pomeroy, Ohio. 

Frank M. Wentworth, 19, Searsmont, s., mustered December 
28, 1863; discharged May 11, 1865. Died at Searsmont, Me., 
February 18, 1866. 

John A. Whitney, 18, Stockton, s., mustered December 30, 
1863; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died in Massachusetts. 

Charles Wiley, 19, Bangor, s., mustered December 31, 1863; 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides 
at East Bangor, Me. 

John W. Young, 18, Waldo, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
died of disease February 22, 1864. 



records of company l. 39 1 

Joined after November i, 1864. 
C \)7n m issioncd Officers. 

Capt. Benjamin F. Oakes, Old Town, commissioned November 
8, 1864, from ist Lieut. Co. I; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at East Tawas, Mich. 

I St Lieut. Edward L. Worcester, Bangor, commissioned Febru- 
ary 9, 1865, from 2d Lieut. Co. Jj ; discharged August 25, 1865. 
Resides at Grand Junction, Col. 

2d Lieut. Frank J. Sargent, Ellsworth, commissioned April 25, 
1865, from Sergeant Co. B .■ mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at Everett, Mass, 

Enlisted Men. 

fames Averill, 18, Veazie, s., mustered September 30, 1864; 
discharged June 6, 1865. 

George W. Brown, 18, Bath, s., mustered December 28, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Bath, Me. 

George R. Dow, 19, Bath, s., mustered December 28, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Bath, Me. 

John A. Smith, 28, Portland, s., mustered October 3, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Portland, Me. 

Manley S. Tyler, 18, Dover, s., mustered January 25, 1865; 
slightly wounded March 31, 1865; mustered out September 11, 
i86q. Resides at Blanchard, Me. 



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THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 




•lOUX H. uriMBY. CoKP. KICHARJ) B. (KEASEY 

FiusT SKiuiT. (iEORGE F. STACY. 
•lOlIN L. CKOOI^ER. 8eu(;t. JOHN H. BROWN. 




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RECORDS OF COMPANY M. 393 

COMPANY M. 

As Organized in March, 1864. 



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('apt. FREDERIC A. Cr:\LMIN<;S. (apt. CHARLES MERRILL. 

Captain FREDERIC A. CUMMINGS. 

CaiDtain Cumniings was promoted from First Lieutenant of Company E 
to the command of Company M. He participated in all the battles of the 
Re.^iment until July, 1864, and was one of the two captains who escaped 
without serious injury. The fatigues of the campaio;n undermined his health 
and he was discharged Nox'ember 25, 1864, after several months' treatment 
in the hospital. He was a very popular officer among his men. He was a 
IM'ominent business man of Bangor up to the time of his death. 

Captain CHARLES MERRILL. 

Commissioned December 13, 1864, from First Lieutenant, Company A. 
He was one of the young captains who came up step by step through merit. 
He did excellent service ; was loyal, brave, and just. 

First Lieutenant CYRUS K. BRIDGES. 

Commissioned March 12, 1864, from Second Lieutenant, Company G. 
He was an excellent officer, in all the battles of the Regiment to June 16, 
1864, when he was wounded in the advance on Petersburg, and mustered 
out September 10, 1864. Was City Marshal of Portland several years and 
has since been prominent in Penobscot, where he resides. 

First Lieutenant CHARLES H. SAWYER. 

Commissioned January 16, 1865, from Second Lieutenant, Company E. 
Did excellent service in both Companies. Mustered out September 11, 1865. 
See record, Companies E and M. Resides at Roach River, Me. 



394 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 





LiKi I . ( \ 111 s i\. i;!;!i »(;ks. 



JKTT. (HAKLES H, SAAVYEK 



Second LikltexNant ARTHUR P. BUDGE. 
See record, Company M, and as Sergeant, Company A. 

Second Lieutenant ALBERT P. EASTMAN. 

Commissioned March 12, 1864, from Sergeant, Company A. Was in all 
the service and. battles of the Regiment to June iS, 1S64, where he was 
wounded. Discharged October 27, 1864. Has contributed mucli of value 
to this work. 





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LiEiT. AKTHIR P. BriHJE. 



Lieut. ALBERT P. EASTAL\N. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY ^^. 



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l.iKiT. ANDREW C. McClKDV. Skk(;t. DANIEL AV. PETTEX(4ILL. 

Second Lieutenant ANDREW C. McCURDV. 
Promoted from Sergeant, April 25, 1S65. See record, Sergeant, Co. M. 

First Sergeant DANIEL W. PETTENGILL. 

The officer who does most for a Company. This is the face of one of 
the best officers of this grade. For the last twenty years he has had charge 
of the mail at the State House, Augusta, and is one of the most faithful and 
accommodating men in the service of the State. 

CoDWiissioncd Officers. 
Capt. Frederic A. Cummings, Bangor, commissioned ]\Iarch 

12, 1864, from I St Lieut. Co. E; slightly wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged November 25, 1864. Died at Bangor, Me., December 

13, 1899. 

ist Lieut. Charles W. Lenfest, Milford, commissioned March 
12, 1864, from 2d Lieut. Co. B; promoted Capt. Co. K January 16, 
1865, and transferred. See Co. K. 

I St Lieut. Cyrus K. Bridges, Penobscot, commissioned March 
12, 1864, from 2d Lieut. Co. G; wounded June 16, 1864; discharged 
September 10, 1864. Resides at Penobscot, Me. 

2d Lieut. Albert P. Eastman, Island Falls, commissioned March 
12, 1864, from Sergeant Co. A; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged 
October 27, 1864. Resides at Falls Church, Va. 

2d Lieut. Benjamin C. Frost, Bangor, commissioned March 12, 
1864, from Hospital Steward, Field and Staff; promoted ist Lieut. 
Co. B December 13, 1864, and transferred. See Co. 13. 



396 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Sergea?its. 

Daniel W. Pettengill, Corinna, joined by transfer from Corporal 
Co. E; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged August 23, 1865. Re- 
sides at Augusta, Me. 

Norris N. Pierce, Bangor, joined by transfer from private Co. 
D; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Bangor, Me. 

David A. Knowles, 27, Hampden, s., mustered May 25, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864, discharged June 10, 1865. Died at Lew- 
iston, Me. 

Andrew C. McCurdy, 21, Lincoln, s., mustered July 6, 1863; 
promoted 2d Lieut. April 25, 1865; mustered out September 11, 
1865. Died at Almeda, Cal., April 18, 1900. 

Sewall D. Ramsdell, 21, Pittston, s., mustered January 3, 1864; 
killed June 16, 1864. 

Dallas Knowlton, 19, Liberty, s., mustered December 5, 1863 ; 
wounded June 16, 1864; discharged May 27, 1865. Resides at 
Liberty, Me. 

Moses A. Parshley, Sangerville, joined by transfer from private 
Co. E; mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Byron W. Murphy, 19, Calais, s., mustered December 3, 1863 ; 
wounded June 22, 1864 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides 
at Calais, Me. 

Co?'poraIs. 

Edward E. Jennison, 21, Caribou, s., mustered October 3, 1863 ; 
promoted Sergeant June 17, 1864; died June 25, 1864, of wounds 
received June 18. 

Henry A. Ramsdell, 20, Atkinson, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
promoted Sergeant June 27, 1864; slightly wounded May 19, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Canova, So. Dak. 

John S. Foster, 19, Canaan, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864 ; transferred to the V. R. C. January 25, 1865. 

John C. Grover, 19, Waldo, s., mustered January 12, 1864; died 
July 16, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 

Andrew J. Knowles, ^iZ-^ Winterport, m., mustered January 4, 
1864; died July 18, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY M. 



397 



Frederick A. Hall, i8, Sebec, s., mustered July 13, 1863: mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Sebec, Me. 

William C. Bridge, 41, Lewiston, m., mustered January 8, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Died 
at Poland, Me., April 2, 189 1. 

Francis B. Deane, 36, Bangor, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Deer Lodge, Mont. 

George E. Potter, 28, Drew Plantation, m., mustered August 17, 

1863 ; mustered out September 1 1, 1865. Resides at Monticello, Me. 
Edward Lyford, 20, Atkinson, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 

promoted Sergeant; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out Septem- 
ber II, 1865. Resides at West Upton, Mass. 

Isaac A. Billington, ^:^, Orrington, m., mustered January i, 
1864; died August 16, 1865, of wounds received May 19, 1864. 

William W^ Pratt, 18, Wayne, s., mustered December 8, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. January 24, 
1865. Died at Poland, Me., December 10, 188 1. 

Jlfus/a'aNS. 

Henry R. Jackson, 18, Waldo, s., mustered January 6, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Winthrop, Me. 

Myrick Hagerty, 19, Unity, s., mustered January 4, 1864; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Died at Pittsfield, Me. 

Samuel H. Powers, 32, Blaine, s., mustered December 16, 1863; 
discharged June 9, 1865. Resides at Togus, Me. 

Samuel R. Cromwell, 36, Woolwich, m., mustered January 7, 

1864 : taken prisoner June 22, 1864 ; died in prison January 7, 1865. 

Joel A. Dorr, 36, Richmond, m., mustered December 30, 1863 ; 
wounded June 10, 1S64; taken prisoner September 9, 1864, ex- 
changed; discharged July 13, 1865. Died at Richmond, Me., Jan- 
uary 15, 1876. 



398 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Privates. 

Erastus Adams, 40, Greenbush, m., mustered December 31, 
1863: wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 14, 1865. Died at 
Clinton, Me., January 5, 1867. 

Theodore R. Arey, 18, Frankfort, s., mustered December 27, 
1863 ; transferred to the Navy. Resides at Port Hadlock, Wash. 

John Austin, 43, Mexico, m., mustered January 2, 1864; 
deserted March 28, 1864. 

Stephen N. Barker, 26, Exeter, m., mustered December 31, 
1863; wounded and taken prisoner June 22, 1864; died in prison 
of wounds September 15, 1864. 

Henry G. Barlow, 21, Freedom, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 7, 1865. Resides at 
Freedom, Me. 

Hiram Batchelder, 18, Montville, s., mustered December 28, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged in 1865, Resides at 
Blaine, Me. 

Isaac P. Batchelder, 23, Palmyra, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Re- 
sides at Lowell, Mass. 

Oliver W. Bates, 35, Greenbush, m., mustered December 29, 1863 ; 
wounded April 6, 1865; discharged September 20, 1865. Died at 
Passadumkeag, Me., January 21, 1899. 

Philemon Bennett Jr., ^tl)^ Garland, m., mustered January 7, 
1864; deserted March 24, 1864. Died at Gardiner, Me., January 
24, 1903. 

Silas S. Bennett, 42, Farmingdale, m., mustered January 9, 
1864; killed June 16, 1864. 

Thomas J. Bickmore, 39, Searsmont, m., mustered December 
30, 1863; killed June 18, 1864. 

George H. Blodgett, 20, Pittston, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
discharged July 5, 1865. Resides at Bowdoinham, Me. 

Rufus H. Blunt, 26, Jonesport, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
discharged July 5, 1865. 

John W. Blyther, 20, INIachias, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
discharged May 16, 1865. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY M. 



399 



Josiah P. Bradbury, 29, Mt. Vernon, s., mustered January 5, 
1864; wounded June 18, 1864: discharged September 20, 1865. 
Died at Rockland, Me., March 29, 1902. 

Orrin W. Brann, 18, Jefferson, s., mustered January 2, 1864; 
died July 11, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

(ieorge B. Brastow, 45, Brewer, m., mustered January 7, 1864; 
died of disease June 21, 1864. 

Frank Bridge, 18, Lewiston, s., mustered January 5, 1864: pro- 
moted Corporal; mustered out September ii, i86<f. 

Elijah Bridges, 43, Bangor, m., mustered Novernber 23, 1863; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

John Brown, 44, Dexter, m., mustered January 7, 1864; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. 

James H. Buck, 29, West Gardiner, m., mustered January 9,. 
1864; discharged September 15, 1864. 

Horace Buckley, 18, Orono, s., mustered October 20, 1863 '•> 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Orono, Me., April 26, 
1866. 

James Butler, 31, Canada, s., mustered January 2, 1864: de- 
serted April 22, 1864. 

William F. Butters, 18, Exeter, s., mustered January 7, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1S64, and March 25, 1865 ; discharged July 31, 
1865. Resides at Thompson, Minn. 

George E. Card, 44, Belfast, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
discharged June 27, 1865. Resides at Brooks, Me. 

Lemuel W. Carter, 23, Bath, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
discharged August 17, 1864. Died at Brunswick, Me., January 
31, 1891. 

Isaac G. Chandler, 45, Atkinson, m., mustered January 6, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at West Stoughton, 
Mass. 

Elias Chick, 44, Thorndike, m., mustered January 7, 1864; 
died November 20, 1864, from wounds received October 27. 

Edward R. Clarry, 44, Union, m., mustered December 25, 1863 ; 
died July 11, 1864, of wounds received June 22. 

Andrew Clindennin, 18, Chester, s., mustered January 8, 1864 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 10, 1865. 



400 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Charles Conery, i8, Ellsworth, s., mustered January 8, 1864; 
wounded October 27, 1864: mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Hartley B. Cox, 37, Winterport, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged April to, 1865. Resides at 
Montville, Me. 

William B. Cox, 18, Danforth s., mustered December 21, 1863; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged October 13, 1864. 

Isaac N. Crabtree, 37, Franklin, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
discharged August 19, 1864. Died at Franklin, Me., May 28, 1903. 

Isaac H. Davis, 43, Dover, m., mustered January 6, 1864; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Josiah Davis, 44, Orland, m., mustered December 21, 1863; 
discharged June 6, 1865. Died at Castine, Me., December 28, 1890. 

William H. DeWolf, 30, Waterville, m., mustered January 6, 
1864; died June it, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Alfred J. Douglass, 19, Exeter, s., mustered December 30, 
1863 ; died June 11, 1864, of wounds received May 19. 

Thomas B. Drysdale, 28, Calais, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
taken prisoner June 22, 1864; died in prison August 13, 1864. 

Edward Dubar, 43, Searsport, m., mustered December 29, 1863 ; 
deserted February 5, 1865. Resides at Danforth, Me. 

Charles E. Dunn, 24, Greenwood, m., mustered November 28, 
1863; wounded July 21, 1864; discharged June 8, 1865. Resides 
at Norway Lake, Me. 

Matthew Elslager, 36, Houlton, s., mustered December 16, 
1863; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

David Esancy, 21, Appleton, s., mustered December 28, 1863 ; 
mustered out September 1 1, 1865. 

George A. Freeman, 41, Bath, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged ]3ecember 28, 1864. Died at 
Brunswick, Me., January 8, 1887. 

Franklin Freemont, 28, Bath, m., mustered January 4,1864; 
discharged June 26, 1865. 

Alonzo Fretson, 18, Lincolnville, s., mustered January 12, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Tres Pinos, Cal. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY M. 401 

Daniel B. Friend, 37, Verona, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September u, 1865. Died 
at Verona, Me., January 2, 1895. 

Samuel V. Girrill, Sangerville, joined by transfer from Co. K; 
promoted Corporal; mustered out June 6, 1865. Resides at Welling- 
ton, Me. 

Levi Glidden, 18, Somerville, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

John M. Gray, 24, Milbridge, s., mustered December 28, 1863 ; 
transferred to the Navy. Died at Madison, Me., in 1899. 

Charles Green, 19 (Pickering's Island), Deer Isle, s., mustered 
January 9, 1864; wounded June 17, 1864; discharged in 1865. 
Died at sea February 6, 1894. 

Benjamin Gribbin, 18, Portland, s., mustered December 28, 
1863; transferred to the V. R. C. August 22, 1864. Resides at 
Portland, Me. 

Horace C. Griffin, 20, Holden, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Joseph F. Harriman, 43, Searsport, m., mustered December 30, 
1863 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at P'rankfort, 
Me. 

Marcellus E. Hart, 18, Appleton, s., mustered January 3, 1864; 
mustered out September n, 1865. Resides at Appleton, Me. 

John H. Haskell, 31, Manchester, m., mustered December 30, 
1863 : died of disease March 2, 1864. 

John E. Hathorn, 24, Medford, s., mustered July 2, 1863 ; 
mustered out September n, 1865. Resides at Bartley, Neb. 

Thomas S. Henderson, 21, Fairfield, s., mustered January 7, 
1864; wounded June 17, 1864; discharged in 1865. Resides at 
Astoria, Ore. 

Charles G. Herrin, 19, Exeter, s., mustered January 4, 1864 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Died about 1870. 

Nathan Higgins, Jr., 44, Cooper, m., mustered January 4, 
1864; died October 1, 1864, of wounds received June 18. 



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David Howe, 42, Cooper, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Cooper, Me. 

Alfred Hoyt, 42, Kenduskeag, m., mustered Januarys, 18^4; 
wounded August 20, 1864; mustered out September n, 1865. 
Died at Nashua, N. H., December 17, 1900. 

Joseph P. Johnson, 36, Monmouth, m., mustered November 25, 

1863 : transferred to the Navy April 2, 1864. Resides at Lewiston, 
Me. 

William P. Johnson, 18, Robbinston, s., mustered January i, 

1864 ; deserted March 29, 1865. 

Charles H. Johnston, 42, Fort Fairfield, m., mustered January 
I, 1864; died of disease October 6, 1864. 

Isaiah L. Jones, 35, Brooksville, m., mustered January i, 1864 ; 
wounded June 12, 1864; mustered out September 11. 1865. 
Resides at West Prooksville, Me. 

Phineas P. Jones, 44, Nobleboro, m., mustered December 7, 
1863: wounded June 17, 1864; died of disease September 7, 
T865. 

Henry O. Keith, 43, Bangor, m., mustered December 31, 1863 ; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged June 30, 1865. Died at 
Bangor, Me., December 22, 1883. 

Philip C. Keith, 37, Lewiston, s., mustered January i, 1864: 
wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Mark P. Kelley, 18, Levant, s., mustered January 6, 1864: 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Alvah B. Knight, 19, North port, s., mustered December 3, 
1863; promoted Corporal; wounded May 19, "1864; mustered out 
September 11, 1865. Resides at Richmond, Me. 

Franklin R. Knowlton, 18, Swanville, s., mustered January 4, 
1864; wounded June 18, 1864: discharged April 21, 1865. Resides 
at West Acton, Mass. 

William W. Lander, 33, Corinna, m., mustered January 2, 
1864: discharged May 18, 1865. ])ied at Dexter, Me., May 15, 
1889. 

Benjamin Leach, 18, Rockland, s., mustered January 14, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Drowned at sea January 9, 1886. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY M. 



403 



Thomas Leighton, 43, Steuben, m., mustered January 4, 1864 ; 
wounded June 16, 1864; discharged July 31, 1865. Died at 
Steuben, Me. 

George \V. Lloyd, 27, Orland, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
wounded June 16, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Robert T. Lloyd, 23, Orland, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Died at Orland, Me., July 3, 
1903. 

Charles T. Lord, 21, West Bath, m., mustered January 1, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Harpswell, Me. 

George I. McDowell, 27, Columbia, m., mustered November 9, 
1863 ; discharged in 1865. 

Charles McMann, 19, Fort Fairfield, s., mustered January i, 
1864; killed May 19, 1864. 

Alexander H. Maddocks, s^, Belfast, m., mustered January 14, 
1864; wounded June 16, 1864; discharged June 10, 1865. Died 
at Belfast, Me., July 29, 1890. 

Philonas K. Martin, 26, Lewiston, s., mustered December 26, 
1863 : wounded June 22, 1864. Not accounted for. 

James Merrill, 43, Norway, m., mustered January 2, 1864; 
killed ]\Iay 19, 1864. 

William H. Merrill, 27, Gardiner, m., mustered January 6, 
1864; wounded June 5, 1864; discharged March 25, 1865. Died 
at Gardiner, Me., October 31, 1891. 

Joseph Miller, 21, Palmyra, s., mustered December t8, 1863; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Edwin G. Minot, 24, Belgrade, s., mustered January 4, 1864 ; 
died September 17, 1864, from wounds received June 18. 

Henry H. Mitchell, 24, Palmyra, s., mustered January 5, [864: 
killed May 19, 1864. 

John A. Mitchell, 20, Palmyra, s., wounded May 19, 1864; 
discharged June 22, 1865. Drowned about 1869. 

John E. Mitchell, 21, Milbridge, s., mustered January 4. 1864; 
wounded June 16, 1864 ; discharged February 27, 1865. Resides 
at Milbridge, Me. 



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THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Hezekiah C. Moore, 32, Castine, m., mustered January i, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged March i, 1865. Re- 
sides at Castine, Me. 

Orlando :\Ioore, 23, Brewer, s., mustered January 6, 1864; 
wounded May 31, 1864; mustered out September 11,1865. ^^- 
sides at Los Angeles, Cal. 

Samuel \V. Moore, 30, Castine, s., mustered January 6, 1S64 ; 
discharged September 20, 1865. Died at Newburyport, Mass., 
about 1884. 

David M. Morgan, 18, Greenwood, s., mustered December 2, 
1863 ; wounded May 19, 1864. Resides at South Waterboro, Me. 

Anderson P. Morton, 22, Garland, m., mustered January 5, 
1864; discharged June 16, 1865. Died in 1892. 

Starling Mower, 36, Medford, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged July 17, 1865. Resides at 
Brownville, Me. 

Timothy Nickels, 38, Fayette, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; discharged December 18, 1864. Died at 
Fayette, Me., July 7, 1889. 

Thomas Norton, 21, China, s., mustered January 2, 1864; dis- 
charged March 6, 1865. Resides at Weeks Mills, Me. 

John Noyes, 18, Jefferson, s., mustered January 2, 1864; 
wounded April 6, 1865 ; mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides 
at North Whitefield, Me. 

Ebenezer E. Ordway, 25, Bangor, m., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; died of disease May i, 1864. 

Frederick Ordway, 25, Rockland, m., mustered December 28, 
1863 ; wounded June 18, 1864; discharged March 24, 1865. 

William H. Over, 18, Steuben, s., mustered January 10 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864: discharged May 27, 1865. 

Ferdinand Palmer, 18, Palmyra, s., mustered January 5, 1864: 
wounded June 4, 1864; killed April 6, 1865. 

James Palmer, 18, New Brunswick, s., mustered January 2, 
1864; promoted Corporal; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Resides at Pataha, Wash. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY M. 405 

Edward H. Parsons, 44, Mexico, m., mustered January 2, 1864; 
discharged March 23. 1865. Resides at Turner, Me. 

Philander G. Perry, 27, Montville, m., mustered December 28, 
1863; discharged June 30, 1865. Died at Era, Idaho, May 30, 1901. 

Charles H. Philbrick, 22, Newburg, s., mustered January 2, 
1864; wounded June 22, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Died at Newburg, Me., December i, 1881. 

John A. Poor, 27, Andover, s., mustered January 2, 1864; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Miles Ripley, 38, Appleton, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
discharged January 19, 1865. Resides at Appleton, Me. 

Charles D. Robbins, ^S, Harrington, m., mustered January 2, 
1864; wounded May 19, 1864. Not accounted for. 

Ira B. Robbins,. 32, Appleton, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
killed May 19, 1864. 

Luther F. Rolfe, 23, Canaan, s., mustered January 4, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged November 29, 1865. Died at 
Canaan, Me., April 29, 1899. 

Rufus H. Rooks, 21, Clifton, s., mustered July i, 1863; 
wounded June 6, 1864; discharged May 27, 1865. Resides at 
Bangor, Me. 

Charles F. Runnells, 27, Farmingdale, m., mustered January 5, 
1864: wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Hosea H. Sherburn, 32, Shapleigh, m., mustered January 4, 
1864: wounded June 18, 1864; discharged February 27, 1865. 
Resides at Rockport, Mass. 

Charles E. Smiley, 21, Winslow, s., mustered December 29, 
1863; killed May 19, 1864. 

George W. Speed, 44, Danforth, m., mustered December 29, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; transferred to the V. R. C. 

Timothy Spencer, 35, Bradley, m., mustered December 30, 
1863; killed May 19, 1864. 

Salathiel Sprague, 41, Bath, m., mustered January i, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. 

F^rederick Stanhope, 19, Robbinston, s., mustered January 5, 
1864; wounded June 4, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 
Died at Dennvsville. Me.. Mav 2. 1808. 



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4o6 THE FIRST .MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Edwin Stanton, i8, Robbinston, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
killed June 18, 1864. 

Charles M. Staples, 40, Naples, m., mustered January 4, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864, June 18, 1864, and April 6, 1865 ; mustered 
out September 11, 1865. Resides at South Bridgton, Me. 

Virgil D. Sweetland, 26, Palmyra, s., mustered January 5. 1864; 
promoted Corporal; wounded May 19, 1864; mustered out Septem- 
ber II, 1865. Died at Pittsfield, Me., Nov. 27, 1902. 

Smith A. Symonds, 18, Sangerville, s., mustered December 30, 
1863; wounded May 19, 1864; discharged July 13, 1865. Died at 
Dexter, Me., August 13, 1891. 

John G. Tibbetts, 27, Jay, s., mustered January 2, 1864; 
wounded June 3, 1864; discharged December 3, 1864. Died at 
Togus, Me., January 6, 187 i. 

Oscar Tracy, 18, Columbia, s., mustered January i, 1864; 
wounded May iq, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. Re- 
sides at Augusta, Me. 

Ephraim C. Tripp, 18, Embden, s., mustered January 5, 1864 ; 
discharged August 28, 1865. Resides at North Anson, Me. 

Reuben H. Turner, 28, Penobscot, m., mustered January 5, 
1864 ; transferred to the V. R. C. January 24, 1865. Died 
September 5, 1875. 

Eli Veancou, 18, Orono, s., mustered January 5, 1864 ; mus- 
tered out September 11, 1865. Died at Orono, Me., April 28, 
1897. 

Franklin Ware, 22, Orrington, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
taken prisoner June 22, 1864, exchanged; discharged June 26, 
1865. Died at Orrington, Me., August 15, 1900. 

Edwin E. White, 21, Holden, s., mustered January 5, 1864; 
promoted Corporal; wounded June 18, 1864; mustered out Septem- 
ber II, 1865, Resides at Eddington, Me. 

Josiah M. Whittier, 28, Corinth, m., mustered January 5, 1864; 
wounded May 19, 1864; wounded and taken prisoner October 27, 
1864; exchanged in February, 1865; mustered out September 11, 
1865. Died at Corinth, Me., October 28, 1869. 



RECORDS OF COMPANY M. 407 

Axel Woodbury, 44, Exeter, m., mustered January i, 1864; 
wounded June 18, 1864; discharged June 20, 1865. Died at 
Exeter, Me., June 30, 1876. 

Joined after November i, 1864. 

Conufiissioued Offtccrs. 

Capt. Charles Merrill, Lincoln, commissioned December 13, 

1864, from ist Lieut. Co. A; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

ist Lieut. Prince A. (jatchell, Lincoln, commissioned December 
13, 1864, from 2d Lieut. Co. A ; promoted Capt. Co. K August 15, 

1865, and transferred. See Co. E. 

ist Lieut. Charles H. Sawyer, Greenville, commissioned Jan- 
uary 16, 1865, from 2d Lieut. Co. E; mustered out September ir, 
1865. Resides at Roach River, Me. 

2d Lieut. Arthur P. Pudge, Springfield, commissioned Feb- 
ruary 9, 1865, from Sergeant Co. A; wounded April 6, 1865; dis- 
charged May 5, 1865. Resides at Minneapolis, ]\Iinn, 

Enlisted Men. 

James ]\L Pryant, 43, Searsmont, m., mustered January 2, 
1864; wounded April 6, 1865; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Patrick Frowley, 21, England, s., mustered October 12, 1864; 
mustered out September 11, 1865. Resides at Prockton, Mass. 

Thomas Powers, 21, Hopkinton, Mass., s., mustered October 
13, 1864; mustered out September 11, 1865. 

Ambrose F. Sanborn, 20, Atkinson, s., mustered January 31, 
1865 ; discharged September 8, 1865. Resides at Atkinson, Me. 

Richard H. Shorl, 20, Mass., m., mustered December 6, 1864 ; 
discharged September 23, 1865. 

John H. Thurber, 23, Newport, R. L, mustered October 13, 
1864; discharged August 21, 1865. 



4o8 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

EXPERIENCE LYING ON THE BATTLEFIELD 
AFTER THE CHARGE.. 

Immediately after the charge of the i8th of June, 1864, the 
whole five acres of ground over which the Regiment had passed 
was literally covered with the fallen men of the Regiment; a few 
were unhurt, but could not get back without losing their lives. 
Many were wounded and far more were dead. Lieut. F. O. Talbot, 
of Company K, writes his experience in getting back from near the 
Confederate works to the dug road from which the charge started. 

The recital of such experiences would be as different as the 
different men who experienced them. After relating his race to the 
front, and finding himself among the few who were standing, he 
proceeds as follows : 

To resume my narrative, when I lay down I placed my full 
haversack on the middle of my back, thinking it might turn the 
course of a bullet. The sun shone bright and hot and was getting 
in its work on the dead and dying who lay all around me, and from 
whom I did not hear a shriek or cry. A steady low murmur filled 
the air, which I took to be the groans of the many wounded men. 
The wicked, cruel sound which I heard every minute, as a bullet 
struck a man already wounded or dead near me, almost unnerved me- 
They struck the ground and threw the dirt over me. I thought of 
digging a hole with my bayonet and getting up a small pile of dirt 
in front of me, but the ground was very hard, a bayonet a slow tool 
to dig with, and the Johnnies would practice on me the whole time 
I would be at work. Then if I lay quiet I might not be fired at. 
I lay still, hugging the ground and wishing I w^as as fiat as a postage 
stamp. At length, after two or three hours of suspense, during 
which I lay perfectly flat on my face, listening to the zip of bullets 
as they flew by and around constantly, darkness came and still the 
enemy contir^ued their fire. A sergeant lay a few^ feet in front of 
me on his side, with one arm throw^n over his blanket roll. The new 
chevrons on his sleeves being red could be seen a long distance. 
He was a large, stout man. I called to him, '' Sergeant, are you 
wounded?" He answered, " Yes." I said, " Can't you lie in any 
other position, your chevrons are so bright that they can be seen by 
the Johnnies?" He answered, "I have a bullet in my hip, I can't 



AN EXPERIENCE LYING ON THE BATTLEFIELD. 409 

lie any other way/' I heard voices in mv rear and recognized one 
of them as the voice of Lieut. Hiram F. Swett, of Company K. I 
spoke to him and we agreed to remain quiet until the firing ceased. 
I heard a band in the rear of the Confederate army. I tried to 
make out the tune, but could not; soon I heard a band in the rear 
of our army, I listened to that, but that was too far away. The 
stars came out and I heard the heavy, deep boom of cannon on my 
left; 1 saw a red light rise quickly up into the air, describe a curve 
and descend into the rebel works. I knew it to be a mortar shell, 
and was glad to see it. Another followed, and for an hour or more 
I watched the lights as they rose high in air and fell among the 
enemy, and heard the explosion with much satisfaction. Suddenly 
a wounded soldier near me took his pipe from his pocket, deliber- 
ately filled it, and lighting a match began to smoke. The burning 
match lighted up the field for several feet around us, and we could 
be plainly seen by the enemy. Another wounded soldier called to 
him to put out the match or the Johnnies would fire at him. He 

coolly answered, " Let them fire and be d d, I will never have 

another smoke," and he continued to calmly enjoy his last smoke. 

At last the bullets ceased to hiss about me, and for a moment 
all was quiet. I said to Lieutenant Swett, " Now is our time." 
''Come on," said he, and with a bullet in his leg and a buck shot 
in his wrist he jumped up and was off like a deer before I could 
start. But at that instant bullets began to come from both our 
friends and the enemy. Our picket line began to fire, and, aiming 
too low, fired among us who lay on the field. I dropped down again. 
I was now between tw^o fires. This was more than I had calculated 
on — to get back in the face of fire from our own line. A man near 
me rose up, placed an officer very badly wounded on his back, and 
started to crawl on his hands and knees to the rear. I asked him 
if he were going to try to get back now, and he replied, "Yes." I 
said, "Well, if you get there let those fools know who they are shoot- 
ing." He at once sang out as loud as he could, "Hello, boys, you 
are shooting at your own men.*' I was then afraid of being cap- 
tured, as we were much nearer to the enemy than to our line. But 
our picket ceased firing and ail was still except the low, murmuring 
sound which had continued without cessation all the evening. I 
got up and started for the rear. At the first step a man called out, 



4IO. THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARIILLERV. 

" Water."' I went to him, gave him a drink from my full canteen, 
and started again. Again I was arrested by the cry of "Water." 
I answered the call and started forward, but I could not proceed. 
Wherever I was seen by a wounded man he called for water in such 
an appealing voice I could not pass him by. I was afraid I would 
be seen by the .enemy and fired upon. I would not be safe until in 
the sunken road many rods away. At every step I had to answer 
that agonizing cry for water. Some of the men w-ere delirious, 
others sensible and calm. I had often read of the "cries and 
shrieks of the wounded." All of these men, except the delirious, 
bore their sufferings quietly and without complaint, with the certain 
knowledge that they were to lie there between the two lines and be 
fought over, with the hot sun beating down upon them by day, until 
they bled and starved to death, and not one of them weakened for 
an instant. One young soldier, whom I thought belonged to Com- 
pany G, lay on his back. His eyes were shut, and he was nearly 
gone. I placed the canteen to his mouth, the water ran down his 
throat, and as I took the canteen away he opened his eyes, mur- 
mured faintly, "Tell father I did my best," and died. When giving 
water to them I would say, "Leave some for others," and those 
heroes, though dying with thirst, any one of \vhom could have 
drained the canteen, only took a few swallows that there might be 
some left for another comrade. Those who were delirious would 
hold the mouth of the canteen with a firm grip in their teeth and 
drink until I would wrench it from them and leave them still 
crying for water. 

I continued to pick my way carefully among the dead and 
wounded toward the rear, and when about halfway, as I was giving 
a man a drink, I saw a dozen flashes of fire' in front, heard the 
sharp crack of rifles and the zip of bullets. I quickly jerked three 
or four dead men together and lay down behind them, and began 
cursing myself for not getting off the field when I had a chance. 
The firing continued a half-hour or more and ceased, when I started 
again, fully determined this time to listen to no calls for water. 
But in vain; I could not go by them. I had to stop and answer 
their appeals, all the time keeping a sharp eye on the line of 
intrenchments that showed dimly in the starlight. But I was getting 
nearer and nearer to our line. I passed the last man, and walked 



AN EXPERIENCE LYING ON THE BATTLEFIELD. 411 

toward the Hare house, to get among the trees. -I heard an inde- 
scribable sound, loud and strong, went toward it, and found a boy 
lying on his back, his face very pale, very seriously wounded and 
making a continual babbling in his throat. His eyes were shut, he 
was young, handsome, and intelligent looking. I placed the canteen 
to his mouth, he seized it with- his teeth, his cries stopped, and I 
allowed the last drop of water to run down his throat. He still held 
on to the nozzle of the canteen, and I had to twist and wrench it 
out of his month, and left him making the same sounds. I went to 
the house, found a picket on post, gave him a vigorous blowing up 
for shooting among us, paid no attention to his earnest excuses, and 
ran down the road. It was very hard to leave those good boys 
lying on the ground bleeding and dying, to rot in the sun in the 
days to come ; those boys who had left Washington with us, and 
had kept their places through all the marches and battles so far. 

In the road I found a line of men who were strangers to me, 
and they directed me to the First Maine Heavy, and after walking 
an hour or two to the left I found what was left of my Regiment ; 
my Company with six men in it, I made the seventh. We started 
on the charge with sixty-six men. Thirty days before we numbered 
147 men in Company K. Robert Smith and I were now the only 
sergeants left in the Company, James W. Huntley the only corporal, 
and no commissioned officers ; Lieutenants Porter, Gibson, and 
Swett all wounded. The men told me that Colonel Chaplin had 
used some of his vigorous language to officers who outranked him, 
asking them with tears running down his face, "Where is my Regi- 
ment, Where's my Regiment?" and pointing to the field where they 
lay in heaps said, "There it is, there they are"; that he called the 
brigade cowards, that they were only fit to fight behind breastworks, 
and that none of the ofiicers resented his w^ords. 

It was now near morning and we lay on our arms and slept. 
We had lost about 12,000 men since our first advance on Peters- 
burg three days before, and had failed. On the 15th the second 
corps alorte could have been up and taken the city with a small 
loss. These blunders and useless slaughters had taken, for a time, 
the fight out of our corps. We were no longer "eager for the fray." 

The experience of the wounded who were so fortunate as to 
get to the rear is thus told me by a survivor. "I was, with about 



412 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

300 others, taken to division hospital, about two miles in the rear. 
The worst night I ever passed through was there. The boys were 
wounded in every conceivable way and by all kinds of pieces of 
iron and lead. Some were delirious, others sensible. The delirious 
babbled and muttered of fathers and mothers, wives and children. 
Some prayed, some swore, some died. Several amputation tables 
were occupied every minute all night by men, attended by the hard- 
worked surgeons, with their shirt sleeves rolled up to the shoulder, 
and their hands and arms covered with blood. As soon as they 
had taken off an arm or leg, and the stump was dressed, the soldier 
was lifted off the table and lain on the ground by two 'hospital 
beats' (big bounty men who preferred this service to fighting), and 
another placed on the table. Large fires were burning to give light 
for the work. The ground was soaked with blood, and next morn- 
ing there was a pile of legs and arms on the ground that would load 
a supply wagon. Some men died after the operation. They were 
dying all through the night. Next day all who could walk, there 
being some three hundred or more from other regiments with us, 
started to walk to City Point, some ten or fifteen miles. The day 
was hot, the road very dusty, and we trudged on, a long procession 
of weak, faint, bloody men. Blood dripped from our bandaged 
wounds all the way, and our wounds became stiff' and inflamed. 
Somewhere on the road we came to a well guarded by three or four 
colored soldiers, as we supposed for the use of General somebody's 
headquarters. The head of the column, about one hundred of us, 
staggered up to the well, demanding water to drink and to bathe 
our wounds. The 'nigs,' wanting to do their duty, refused the 
water. Frank Sargeant grabbed one of them by the neck, held his 

head over the well, and told him to -turn that crank, you black 

, or we'll throw you in head first and these other nigs on top of 

you." The 'dark' turned almost white with fear, as he saw the 
scowling faces around him, and seizing the crank he stood and drew 
water hour after hour until every man was supplied. After several 
hours we reached City Point in a weak, fainting condition and were 
placed in hospital, where we received good care." 



POEM. 41^ 



THE CHARGE OF THE NINE HUNDRED. 

I heard last night a soldier tell 
Of what in '64 befell 

His Regiment, 

On duty sent 
Down to the front our host to swell 
That fought Rebellion's power to quell, 

"Nine hundred men from Maine were we, 

As brave and true. 

As hot to do, 

As any ever wore the blue. 
Nine hundred men from Maine ! 
Where shall their like be found again? 

"Two hours past noon 

One day in June 

The 'foncard' came, and on we went — 

Our Regiment 

Alone! alone! 
For of that mighty armament, 
Though still on victory intent, 

There was not one 

But deemed it vain. 

Nay certain death. 
To charge again 
And catch the fiery breath 
That pent up slumbered in that battlement. 

" The field we gain. 
And straight we hear 

The rebel jeer: 

' Ho, come on, Yanks 1 ' 

They wildly cheer 

As we draw near. 
And all along the extended line, 

Across the crest 

From east to west. 
Twice five thousand rifles in the sunlight shine. 



414 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

"A short, sharp word 

The sudden stilhiess stirred, 

A blinding tiash, 

A thunderous crash, 
A deaf ning and incessant roar. 

While on us pour 

In front, in tiank. 

From rank to rank. 
Such blasts as never fell before, — 

One minute more 

And all is o'er: 
Six hundred daring men and four 
Lie dead or weltering in their gore. 

'' 'Where are my boys? ' our Colonel cried. 
As the Chief in command he sternly eyed; 
'Where are my boys who would face the foe 
When even your veterans dared not go ? 
See. there is my Regiment stark and low,' 
And I saw down his cheeks the big tears tiow 
As he sadly directed the Generars view 
To a strip of the field covered over with blue. 

*• Xine hundred men from Maine I 

Shall battle plain 

E'er behold daring like yours again? 

Saw Balaklava or Waterloo 

Heroes more dauntless and brave than vou ? " 



RECAPl'URING SOME (;UNS. 415 

CAPTAIN B. F. OAKES' ACCOUNT OF RECAPTURING 
GUNS AT BULL PEN, OCTOBER 27, 1862. 

The enemy had thrown a heavy skirmish line across the road 
in our rear, and evidently proposed to bag our whole outfit, but the 
scheme failed. Among the non-combatants was our popular 
assistant surgeon. Dr. H. A. Reynolds, and he was pretty well 
loaded with money, watches, etc., placed in his hands by the boys 
earlier in the day for safe keeping. As the fire grew hotter, and 
the musketry chimed in, the said officer, ambulances, surgeon, and 
non-combatants before mentioned, made several rapid forced 
marches as the fire alternated from front to rear in this well-named 
"Bull pen" in which we found ourselves, but all in vain, they were 
obliged to face the music. One battery of the enemy completely 
enfiladed our Regiment, as it rested in line. They were firing solid 
shot at one of our batteries and their shot fell short, strikinor the 
ground and tumbling along, sometimes over and sometimes into our 
line, among the boys, making it decidedly uncomfortable for us. 

Many of the boys, however, laid down, resting on their knap- 
sacks, many with backs to the firing and paying little attention to 
it. While in this position, I saw a conical solid shot strike the 
ground after its first rebound, directly under the knapsack of a 
soldier of Co. E, and instantly he lay face downward on the same 
ground and practically unhurt, though stunned, and for a moment 
somewhat dazed, while the shot took the second bound and cleared 
the line. The knapsack and contents were badly demoralized, and 
we all voted it a close call. No other man in the line was touched, 
but there were several narrow escapes. 

Soon after this came the familiar "rebel yell," accompanied by 
volleys of musketry. The enemy were making one of their massed 
charges on our center. On they came, our line at this point falling 
back and permitting them to capture two guns of Battery C. The 
cannoneers of the battery were flying up the road to the rear with 
their two remaining guns to take a new position, and some of the 
broken infantry commands with them. Things looked bad for us 
just then, but Hancock "the superb " was there and he soon brought 
order out of chaos. The First Maine Heavy Artillery was counter- 
marched double-quick and deployed in single rank as skirmishers 
at short intervals of one pace, facing the enemy to the northwest 



^l6 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

and their onward sweep was checked. In this move Colonel Shep- 
herd was assisted by the writer at the Colonel's request. Just as 
this formation was completed, a rebel shell passed through our line, 
and between the legs of General Hancock's horse, narrowly missing 
one of the General's feet. In a voice of thunder, but solid and 
clear, he called to a staff officer, "Get those batteries in position." 
Any man who saw Hancock in a fight could well understand why 
his boys sang, '' We'll think of thee, Hancock, we'll love thee for- 
ever.'' Colonel Smith called for volunteers to retake the guns of 
Battery C, and Adjt. P. A. Gatchell and First Lieut. B. F. Cakes 
with a detachment of men from the First Maine responded and 
retook and brought back the guns. 

Dispositions were now made by the reserve force of the left to 
swing in and take the charging column which had halted in the rear, 
seeing which they retired in disorder, except a small detachment 
farthest advanced, who took refuge in a barn, to be made prisoners 
later. Private Hancock, of Co. G, was deliberately shot down by 
one of these men while going forward to interview them, a cold- 
blooded, murderous act. I witnessed a similar one at Totopotomoy 
Creek, but with somewhat different results, for in this case the 
retribution came swift and sure. The Confederates had fallen back 
and this man secreted himself in the long grass of the march and 
did not retire w^ith their battle line. Just before our line reached 
him, he rose up out of the grass and, taking deliberate aim, shot a 
man in our line and immediately dropped his gun and held up both 
hands. He fell instantly, pierced by several bullets, and received 
no further attention. Such incidents were to be regretted in 
civilized warfare, and I never saw their counterpart from the Union 
side. 



THE FORT KNOX SQUAD. 417 



FORT KNOX, MAINE, SQUAD. 

These men were enlisted for a new company to be known as Com- 
pany L, Lieutenant Palmer was detached and put in command, Quar- 
termaster-Sergeant Fuller was made second lieutenant, and Commissary- 
Sergeant Dwinal, promoted to quartermaster-sergeant, was detached 
and served here as post quartermaster-sergeant. As the organization 
was never completed, Lieutenant Fuller was mustered out as a super- 
numerary officer, Lieutenant Palmer and Quartermaster- Sergeant Dwi- 
nal remaining on detached service. The squad remained at Fort Knox 
through their term of service. 

Commissioned Officers. 

First. Lieut. Thomas H. Palmer, Millbridge, Company H ; discharged 
July I, 1865. 

Second Lieut. Mandel M. Fuller, Boston, Mass. ; joined by transfer 
from field and staff; commissioned Dec. 31, 1862 ; mustered out Oct. 
21, 1863. Resides at Rapid City, S. D. 

Qua rtermaster- Sergea n f. 

Charles Dwinal, Bangor; discharged July 31, 1865. Resides at 

Bangor, Me. 

Enlisted Men . 

Newell Bagley, 20, Milo, s; mustered Aug. 31, 1863; mustered out 
Sept. 1 1, 1865. 

Humphrey M. Blaisdell, 21, Otis, s; mustered July 22, 1863; 
ordered to report to General Burnside in 1864 with the view to ap- 
pointment in the United States colored troops. 

Michael Branegan, 18, Bangor, s; mustered July 17, 1864; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

John A. Burrill, 28, Bucksport, m; mustered May 12, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

John Casey, 2f, Benedicta, s ; mustered July 17, 1863; deserted 
Oct. 3, 1863. 

David CUndenen, 22, Winn, m; mustered July 17, 1863; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. 

Charles V. Colley, 19, St. Albans, m ; mustered Sept. 8, 1863 ; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 



4l8 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

George B. Crawford, 21, Alton, s; mustered Aug. 31, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

Charles S. Cromwell, 19, Mercer, s; mustered July 6, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

Roland E. Davis, 18, Bucksport, s ; mustered Aug. 11, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

John Finnegan, 25, Hampden, m; mustered July 10, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

Dwinel A. Haynes, 22, Bangor, s; mustered July 22, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

James L. Kimball, 19, Harmony, s; mustered July 7, 1863 ; deserted 
Feb. II, 1864. 

John H. McMullen, 28, Old Town, m ; mustered July 17, 1863 ; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865 

Elon G. Moore, 18, Dixmont, s; mustered Sept. i, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

Amos Moulton, 20, Bucksport, s; mustered Aug. 11, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

Augustus D. Prescott, 18, Bangor, s ; mustered Aug. 11, 1863 ; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

John J. Randall, 29, Orono, s; mustered Aug. 26, 1863; Clustered 
out Sept. 1 1, 1865. 

George I. Smith, 21, Hudson, s; mustered July 22, 1863 ; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. 

H. Augustus Smiih, 18, Machias, s; mustered June 30, 1863; mus- 
tered out Sept. II, 1865. 

Orlando C. Tibbetts, 20, Otis, s ; mustered July 22, 1863 ; mustered 
out Sept. II, 1865. 

THIRD MAINE BATTERY. 

The Third Maine Battery was mustered into the United States ser- 
vice Dec. II. 1861. On March 28, 1863, it was attached to the First 
Maine Heavy Artillery and designated as 

Company M. 

On Feb. 22, 1864, it was detached from the regiment and completed 
its term of service under its original name, a new Company M, organ- 
ized by Capt. Frederic A. Cummings, made up from recruits recently 
sent to the regiment, taking its place. 



THIRD MAINE BATTERY. 



419 



Ihe following is a complete list of the battery as it existed on Nov. 
863:- 

Com?nissioned Officers. 

Capt. Ezekiel R. Mayo, Hampden. 
First Lieut. Seth A. Emery, Bangor. 
Second Lieut. Joseph W. Whitmore, Hampden. 



Serjeants. 



James E. Swett, Haynesville. 
Willis M. Haycock, Calais. 
Thomas R. Smith, Milford. 



Abner Shepard, Dexter. 
Josiah N. Baker, Orrington. 
John Bunker, Brewer. 



Coi'porah. 

WilUam H. Sanborn, Machiasport. William H. Gates, Bangor. 
Thomas J. Callagan, Princeton. 
Alonzo E. Ricker, Bangor. 
Eleazer B. Kennerson, Plymouth 
Gratian Salaberry, Brewer. 



George W. Goodell, Hampden. 
William P. Barry, Whitney ville. 
Joseph G. Nichols, Dexter. 
James W. W. Carlton, Winterport. 



Daniel P. Colson, Brewe 



Artificers. 

Asa Spooner, Sangerville. 

Simeon E. Goddard, Palmyra. 



George W. Smith, Brewer 



Musicians. 

Henry Baker, Jr., Brewer. 



Wagoner. 
Charles H. Sprague, Corinna. 



Privates. 



Angervine, Andrew F., Old Town. 
Avery, Edward, Winterport. 
Ayer, George W., Brewer. 
Bachelder, James W., Ccrinna, 
Baker, Edward, Orrington. 
Bowen, Henry, Bangor. 
Carlton, Asaph A., Winterport. 
Carlton, Joseph E., Winterport. 
Chapin, Edwin A., Orrington. 



Clark, Moses, Corinna, 
Cole, Charles A., Newport. 
Collemer, James S., Lincolnville. 
Colson, John L., Winterport. 
Colson, Leeman A., Winterport. 
Colson, Nelson, Winterport. 
Colson, Robert W., Winterport. 
Crockett, John F., Winterport. 
Daggett, Tristram, Parkman. 



420 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Davis, Joseph C, Winterport. 
Dolbeck, Matthew J. M., VVhit- 

neyville. 
Doliffj Roscoe G., Levant. 
Doten, Jason L., Cooper. 
Douglas, William, Dexter. 
Driscoll, Jeremiah, Whitneyville. 
Emery, Corren E., St. Albans. 
Estabrook, William J., Bangor. 
Folsom, Dernet A , Newport. 
Farnham, Charles A., Augusta. " 
Farnham, Samuel S., Augusta. 
Forbes, Charles H., Bangor. 
Foster, Henry J., Corinna. 
Oilman, Stephen, Sangerville. 
Given, Francis, Corinna. 
Given, Robert, Jr., Corinna. 
Glidden, Benjamin F., Brewer. 
Green, John S., Brewer. 
Haines, John S., Dexter. 
Haskell, William, Hudson. 
Hilton, James A. K., Palmyra. 
Ireland, George, Garland. 
Johonnet, Horace M., Palmyra, 
Jones, Samuel W., Bangor. 
Kellock, Samuel, Waldoboro. 
King, Edward, Princeton. 
Lamb, David L., Calais. 
Lane, Elijah, Orringfon. 
Legacy, Benjamin, Princeton. 
Lacer, Lewis, Enfield. 
Littlefield, Chesman, Cambridge. 



McDonald, George F., Brewer. 
McKinnon, Charles, Harwichport. 
McLeod, James W., Calais. 
Means, Eliphalet S., Machiasport. 
Moore, Sylvanus L., Hampden. 
Morrill, Lewis B., Corinna. 
Murphy, Elisha B., Calais. 
Murray, Daniel, Hampden. 
Olmstead, Charles W., Orono. 
Parcher, Othniel P., Dexter. 
Parker, Henry, Jr , Brewer. 
Patterson, Samuel, Alton. 
Powers, Enoch J., Bangor. 
Rich, John C, Bangor. 
Ricker, William G., Bangor. 
Robinson, Thomas W., Orrington. 
Sawyer, Alfred, Calais. 
Severance, Hiram, Brewer. 
Smart, Josiah C, Levant. 
Smith, Andrew J., Brewer. 
Smith, Benjamin R., St. Albans. 
Smith, James C, Northfield. 
Smith, Joseph A., Orrington. 
Smith, Percival, Winterport. 
Snow, Benjamin, Brewer. 
Snow, Edward J. H., Bangor. 
Snow, John, Bangor. 
Stubbs, Timothy, Jr., Orrington. 
Toward, Charles P., Dexter. 
Wheeler, Stephen F., Corinna. 
Wight, Daniel O., Jr., Calais. 
Worthing, Charles, Palermo. 



UNASSIGNED RECRUITS. 

From November, 1863, to April, 1865, about 120 men were mustered 
into the United States service as recruits for the First Maine Heavy 
Artillery who failed to join the regiment. Fifty-three of them were 
assigned to the Third Maine Battery, and several others to various 



UNASSIGNED RECRUITS. 42 I 

Maine organizations, leaving fifty-four as unassigned recruits, whose 
records, so far as we have been able to trace them, are given below. 

Samuel W. Adams, Wayne, discharged May lo, 1865. 

Charles O. Bates, Lagrange, discharged May 10, 1865. 

Daniel W. Blake, Holden, not accounted for. 

John Bowley, I agrange, discharged May 10, 1865. 

Ambrose Boyle, Bangor, descriptive list sent to Company B. Never 
joined. Absent in arrest for desertion. 

Michael Brann, not indexed nor accounted for. 

John J. Brooks, Ireland, not accounted for. 

Jason L. Buzzell, Carmel, discharged May 10, 1865. 

Everett Carver, Foxcroft, discharged May 13, 1865. 

Eugene Chadbourne, Fryeburg, not accounted for. 

Franklin Chase, Bangor, not accounted for. 

William Clark, Biddeford, not accounted for. 

Bartholumew Coburn, Rumford, not accounted for. 

Francis M. Cumner, Wayne, discharged May 13, 1865. 

William H. Davis, Milford, discharged May 10, 1865. 

Robert D. Dinsmore, Charleston, not accounted for. 

James Duggan, Calais, not accounted for. 

Thomas Fletcher, Greenbush, not accounted for. 

Hosea B. Fowler, Carmel, not accounted for. 

George C Goodhue, Albion, discharged May 10, 1865. 

Thomas J. Gould, Dixmont, discharged May 10, 1865. 

William C. Gray, Hallowell, discharged May 22, 1865. 

Edward B. Hill, Bradford, died February 20, 1864. 

John Hogan, Ireland, not accounted for. 

David E. Holmes, Prospect, not accounted for. 

Ichabod Howe, Sangerville, not indexed nor accounted for. 

John Keenan, North Berwick, not indexed nor accounted for. 

John Knox, alleged rebel deserter, descriptive list sent to Com- 
pany I. Never joined. Transferred to the department of the Cum- 
berland, Nov. 20, 1864. 

Silas W. Lamson, Atkinson, discharged May 10, 1865. 

Edward F. Little, Castine, not accounted for. 

Daniel H. Maxim, Wayne, discharged May 10, 1865. 

James McKenney, Kenduskeag, not accounted for. 

Albert Miller, Appleton, not accounted for. 

John P. Mitchell, Richmond, not accounted for. 



422 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Patrick O'Brien, Calais, not accounted for. 

Cornelius F. Partridge, Dixmont, discharged May lo, 1865. 

Adoniram J. Potter, Auburn, discharged May 13, 1865. 

John Quinn, Toronto, Canada, not accounted for. 

Michael Ready, North Berwick, not accounted for. 

Lemuel Robbins, Enfield, not accounted for. 

Varnum P. Salsbury, not accounted for. 

Charles Smith, Old Town, not accounted for. 

John Smith, alleged rebel deserter, descriptive list sent to Com- 
pany I. Never joined. Transferred to the Department of the Cum- 
berland, Nov. 20, 1864; discharged Sept. 14, 1865. 

Charles C. Snow, Atkinson, died in Alexandria, Va., March 4, 1864. 

Charles Stewart, Troy, not accounted for. 

Oren O. Stewart, Passadumkeag, not accounted for. 

Patrick Sullivan, Orono, not indexed nor accounted for. 

Rancil W. Thing, Shapleigh, not accounted for. 

Edward Welch, Liverpool, England, descriptive list sent to Com- 
pany I. Never joined. Transferred to the Department of the Cum- 
berland, Nov. 20, 1864. 

William Wilder, Waterboro, not accounted for. 

Samuel S. Woodman, Exeter, not accounted for. 

Edward R. Wyman, Kingsbury, not accounted for. 

George W. Young, Searsport, not accounted for. 

David L Young, Bath, died Feb. 6, 1864. 

DEATHS BY DISEASE OR ACCIDENT. 

The following list gives the name and rank, also date and place of 
death, together with the disease or accident causing death, of all who 
died in service from other causes than killed hi action or died of 
wounds. They amount to 216. 

The number of deaths by months and years is as follows : — 

1862. September, 5 ; October, 16; November, 12; December, 3 ; 
total for four months, 36. 

1863. January, 2 ; February, 2 ; March, 2 ; April 2 : June, i ; July, 
I ; August, 3 ; September, 5 ; November, i ; total for the year, 19. 
No deaths occurred during the months of May, October or December. 

1864. January, 5; February, 14; March, 11; April, 7; May, 7; 
June, 10; July, 17 ; August, 20; September, 11 ; October, 7 ; Novem- 
ber, 6 ; December, 8 ; month unknown, 5 ; total for the year, 128. 



DEATHS BY DISEASE OR ACCIDENT. 423 

1865. January, 7; February, 6; March, 7; April, 7; May, i; 
June, I ; July, 2 ; August, i ; September, i ; total for nine months, 33. 

The largest number of deaths by disease, 32, occurred in Company 
H, and the least, 7, in Company M. Companies L and M were organ- 
ized early in 1864, and existed throughout under similar conditions, 
yet the number of deaths by disease in Company L was more than 
double the number in Company M. A still more marked difference 
will be found by comparing the number of deaths in Companies H and 
I. These two companies were organized at the same time and their 
existing conditions as to location and service were practically the same, 
yet Company H lost four times as many men by disease as Company 
I. The cause of these differences is not easily explained. 

Reasons for the great variation in the number of deaths by months 
and years are more readily found. The excessive death rale in 1862, 
when the regiment first went South, and early in 1864, soon after a very 
large number of recruits had reached camp, was doubtless due largely 
to change of climate and the new mode of living. The fatiguing cam- 
paign, commencing May 15, 1864, through the hot summer months, and 
many deaths in prison, readily account for the large death rate during 
that summer, and the debilitating effects of the campaign and prison 
life kept the rate high until the spring of 1865. During the year 1863, 
and the summer of 1865, when the men were comfortably quartered in 
the defenses of Washington, the death rate was very low. 

The causes of death and the number of each are as follows : — 

Typhoid fever, 48; diarrhoea, 40; measles, 18; small-pox, il; 
pneumonia, 10; fever, 10; consumption and exhaustion, 4 each; 
congestion of lungs, heart disease, and drowning, 3 each ; diphtheria, 
dropsy, and lung fever, 2 each ; brain fever, remittent fever, abscess in 
side, lockjaw, diarrhoea and fever, typhoid pneumonia, and malarial 
fever, i each ; cause not given, 49, of whom 17 died in prison. 

The deaths which occurred or were reported after their transfer to 
our regiment, among the members of the 17th and 19th Maine Infantry, 
are not here included, neither are the deaths among the unassigned 
recruits or in the 3d Maine Battery. 

FIELD AND STAFF. 

Major Charles W, Nute, March 9, 1865, at 2d Corps Hospital, of 

pneumonia. 
Sergeant-Major Nathan M. Mills, Nov. i, 1864, drowned in Penobscot 

River. 



424 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Principal Musician Samuel M. Emerson, Sept. 26, 1863, at Fort Sum- | 
ner, of typhoid fever. 

Company A. 

Corporal William W. Pratt, April 25, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of pneu- 
monia. 
Private James P. Annis, Dec. 12, 1864, at Division Hospital. 

" Nathaniel Bodwell, Jr., March 18, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of 

small- pox. 
" Isaac E. Bowley, Jan. 11, 1865, in prison at Richmond. 
*' Noah Cross, Aug. 9, 1864, in Andersonville prison. 
" Lorenzo D. Davis, Nov. 11, 1862, at Washington, of pneu- 
monia. 
•' Benjamin Dow, Oct. i, 1864, at Washington, of diarrhoea. 
'' Edward G. Oilman, Dec. 18, 1864, in camp, of heart disease. 
'' John Oriffiths, Dec. 22, 1864, at Augusta, Me., of diarrhoea. 
" Addison C. Keen, Aug. 9, 1864, in prison, at Richmond. 
'' Francis R. Jewell, August, 1864, at Lincoln, Me., of diarrhoea. 
" Oeorge Lee, Aug. 26, 1864, at City Point, Va., of remittent 

fever. 
" John N. Leonard, June 25, 1864, at Hampton, Va., of typhoid 

fever. 
'' Franklin Lyon, Sept. 2, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of typhoid 

fever. 
*' Cyrus S. Maxwell, Feb. 28, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of brain 

fever. 
" Thomas M. Neal, Feb. 20, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of measles. 
" Melvin J. Perry, Jan. 18, 1864, at Washington, of small-pox. 
^' Francis L. Philbrook, Aug. 3, 1864, in Andersonville prison. 
" Frederick Philbrook, Nov. 16, 1864, in Andersonville prison 
" William H. Pulk, Aug. 16, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of typhoid 

fever. 
" Eri Rowe, Aug. 10, 1864, in prison, at Richmond, of 

diarrhoea. 
" Josiah W. Smith, Jan. 31, 1863, at Washington, of small-pox. 

Cofnpany B. 

Corporal Charles H. Tyler, March 15, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of fever. 
Private Charles E. Cramp, Aug. 10, 1864, at Washington, of diarrhoea. 



DEATHS BY DISEASE OR ACCIDENT. 



425 



Private Joel Curtis, July 26, 1864, at City Point, Va , of diarrhoea. 

Aretus H. Baker, Oct. 6, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of typhoid 
fever. 

Timothy W. George, Dec. i, 1862, at Washington, of heart 
disease. 

John Gerald, September 9, 1864, at Washington, of chronic 
diarrhcea. 

James A. Giles, April 19, 1864, at Fort Sumner. 

Jefferson Gray, March 2, 1864, at Fort Sumner. 

Joseph S. Hutchins, July 4, 1864, at Washington, of diarrhoea. 

Forenzo D. Jones, Sept. 17, 1862, at Georgetown, D. C, of 
typhoid fever. 

Charles L. Langley, March 2, 1864, at Fort Sumner. 

Frank McKeirman, June 27, 1865, at Fort Baker, D. C. 

Elias K. Porter, Andersonville prison, date unknown. 

Albert C. Rider, Nov. 13, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of con- 
sumption. 

Charles E. Shaw, Jan. 4, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of measles. 

Lewis M. Thompson, March i, 1865, at Division Hospital, of 
pneumonia. 
" John H. Tibbetts, April 19, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of con- 
sumption. 

CompLViy C, 

Sergeant Samuel T. Savage, Feb. 18, 1865, at Mt. Desert, Me. 
Private Wellington Beal, July 14, 1864, at Division Hospital, of 
diarrhoea. 

Samuel Brann, Sept. 7, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of typhoid 
fever. 

Sewall A. Bunker, Aug. 15, 1864, in Andersonville prison, of 
diarrhoea. 

Edward Butler, Sept. 4, 1864, at Alexandria, Va., of diarrhoea. 

William S. Butler, Dec. 24, 1864, Division Hospital, of pneu- 
monia. 

Thomas Cain, Oct. 17, 1862, at Washington, of typhoid fever. 

Benson Cunningham, June 18, 1864, at Washington, of typhoid 
fever. 

John H. Frazier, March 20, 1864, at Washington, of small-pox. 

James M. Googins, Nov. 26, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of typhoid 
fever. 



426 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Washburn D. Gray, Sept. 27, 1864, at New York, of chronic 

diarrhoea. 
" Cyrus F. King, Nov. 6, 1862, at Camp Stetson. 
" William Lloyd, Feb. 27, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of diphtheria. 
" John H. Peach, Nov. 26, r862, at Camo Stetson. 
^' William H. Porter, February ii, 1864, at Washington, of 

small-pox. 
" James H. Roberts, March 10, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of 

diarrhoea. 
" Benjamin Rodick, Jan. i, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of dropsy. 
" Andrew J. Ross, Nov. 4, 1864, at Washington, of typhoid 

fever. 
" John B. Saddler, April 4, 1864, at Washington, of small-pox. 
" Edmund Springer, Nov. 22, 1862, at Washington, of abscess 

in side. 
" James M. Stratton, Aug. 20, 1864, in Andersonville prison. 
" James E. Tinker, Sept. 3, 1S63, at Fort Sumner, of typhoid 

fever. 
" George H. Treworgy, Oct. 2, 1862, at Washington, of typhoid 

fever. 
" Nelson Turney, March 12, 1864, at Washington, of diarrhoea. 
" Stephanus Wormwood, April 6, 1865, on battle field, of ex- 
haustion. 

Company D. 

Artificer Amaziah Billings, April 17, 1865, at Bangor, Me., of chronic 

diarrhoea. 
Private Horatio F. Bean, Nov. 3, 1862, at Washington, of typhoid 
fever. 

" William H. Beatham, Aug. 23, 1864, at Alexandria, Va., of 
lockjaw. 

" Daniel W. Briggs, Oct. 29, 1862, at Camp Stetson. 

" Robert R. Damon, Oct. 30, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of measles. 

" William C. Durgans, April 16, 1865, at Veazie, Me. 

'* Wingate J. Durgin, April 16, 1865, at Washington. 

" George Firth, Jan. 9, 1865, at City Point, Va., of typhoid 
fever. 

'• George H. Fish, June 14, 1863, at Battery Parrott, of conges- 
tion of lungs. 

" George A. Haskell, 1864, in Andersonville prison. 



DEATHS BY DISEASE OR ACCIDENT. 427 

Private John W. Hurd, Dec. i6, 1862, at Fort Sumner, of lung fever. 

" Nathan Knowlton, Feb. 15, 1865, at Philadelphia, of dropsy. 

" William W. Philbrick, Jr., Oct. 26, 1862, at Washington, of 
typhoid fever. 

" John N. Prescott, April 9, 1863, at Georgetown, D. C, of con- 
sumption. 

" Thomas Rose, Sept. 28, 1864, at Washington, of diarrhcea. 

" Charles Shaw, May 11, 1864, at Fort Sumner. 

Company E. 
Sergeant Dexter Goodwin, Sept. 29, 1864, at City Point, Va., of 

typhoid fever. 
Corporal Ludovic O. Gatchell, Sept. 10, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of 

typhoid fever. 
Private Joseph S. Church, 1864, in Andersonville prison. 

" James A. Cofifin, March 5, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of typhoid 

fever. 
" William Fish, June 9, 1864, at Alexandria, Va., of diarrhoea. 
" Abial Fowles, June 9, 1864, at Washington, of typhoid fever. 
'' Alonzo P. Gerrish, Nov. 19, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of typhoid 

pneumonia. 
" James H. Gerrish. Aug. 12, 1864, at City Point, Va., of diph- 
theria. 
" Milo Keech; July 7, 1864, at Washington, of diarrhoea. 
" Moses D. Mitchell, Feb. 18, 1863, at Georgetown, D. C, of 

typhoid fever. 
" Jesse J. Peacock, Nov. 22, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of measles. 
" William R. Reeves, Oct. 9, 1862, at Georgetown, D. C, of 

typhoid fever. 
" Luther J. Sawin, Sept. 22, 1864, at New York, of diarrhoea. 
*' Mark P. Steward, Oct. 11, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of measles. 
" Benjamin Stickney, July 16, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of diarrhoea. 
" Charles Thurlow, Aug. i, 1864, at New York, of diarrhcea. 
" John Willard, Sept. 14, 1864, at Augusta, Me., of diarrhoea. 

Company F. 
Corporal David S. Farnham, Dec. 17, 1864, at Carmel, Me., of 
diarrhoea. 
" Charles P. Wheeler, August 16, 1865, at Washington, of 

diarrhoea. 



^y.8 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Richard L. Beede, Feb. 15, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of measles. 

" George F. Bussell, Jan. 22, 1865, ^t Argyle, Me., of diarrhoea. 

"' Otis W. Ellis, Jan. 23, 1865, at Washington, of small-pox. 

" Rufus H. Oilman, July 24, 1865, ^^ ^^^^ Baker, 4th Brigade 
hospital. 

" William T. Gray, Feb. 21, 1864, at Fort Sumner. 

'' John Hall, April 23, 1865, drowned in Potomac River in col- 
lision of transports Black Diamond and Massachusetts. 

" Oliver P. Hodsdon, March 1, 1865, at Annapolis parole camp. 

" John A. Morey, May 30, 1864, on battle field, of exhaustion. 

" John A. Murch, Feb. 21, 1864, at Fort Sumner. 

'' George J. Osborn, July 9, 1864, at Alexandria, Va. 

*' Daniel P. Raymond, Feb. 21, 1865, at Ripley, Me., of diar- 
rhoea. 

" Grant Wentworth, July 29, 1864, on transport from City Point, 
Va. 

" Henry C. Wheeler, May 27, 1864, at Dixmont, Me. 

Co7npaiiy G. 
Second Lieut. Nelson Bridges, Oct. 20, 1864, at Penobscot, Me., of 

diarrhoea. 
Corporal Charles L. Shaw, Oct. 9, 1864, at Rochester, N. Y. 

'' Charles A. Jackson, Dec. 13, 1864, at Annapolis parole camp. 
Private Elliot F. Blood, Oct. 29, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of heart 

disease. 
" Kenney Depray, prisoner, never heard from. 
" Wesley H. Hutchins, Sept. 15, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of 

typhoid fever. 
" William W. Johnson, July 8, 1864, at City Point, of typhoid 

fever. 
" Edwin J. Keen, March i, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of measles. 
" James S. Keen, June 22, 1864, at Washington, of typhoid 

fever. 
" John J. Leary, Feb. 20, 1865, at Baltimore, of typhoid fever. 
*' Silas M. Marshall, March 17, 1865, at Washington, of pneu- 
monia. 
" Daniel A. Mead, Nov. 6, 1862, at Washington, of typhoid fever. 
^' Ellis Mehan, Sept. 28, 1862, at Georgetown, D. C, of typhoid 

fever. 



DEATHS BY DISEASE OR ACCIDENT. 



429 



Private Alfred E. Orcutt, Nov. 9, 1864, at Washington, of diarrhoea. 
" Lauriston C. Parsons, Feb. 15, 1865, at Division Hospital, of 

malarial fever. 
Joseph Peavey, Feb. 1, 1864. at Fort Sumner, of small-pox. 
Thornton E. Peavey, Oct. 16, 1864, at Division Hospital, of 

fever. 
Francis M. Perkins, Oct. 27, 1862, at Georgetown, D. C, of 

typhoid fever. 
John S. Quigley, June 9, 1864, at Corps Hospital, of typhoid 

fever. 
Samuel B. Saunders, Dec. 6, 1862, at Fort Sumner, of pneu- 
monia. 
James A. Smith, March 2, 1865, in prison at Richmond, Va. 
Charles B. Trafton, Feb. 13, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of 

measles. 
Roscoe Trevitt, died in Florida in prison, date unknown. 
Aaron E. Williams, Jan. 21, 1865, i^ camp, of exhaustion from 

overwork. 

Compariy H. 

Sergeant Elijah B. Barton, Nov. 13, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of measles. 

" ^Augustus P. Nash, April 23, 1865, drowned in Potomac River 

in collision of transports Black Diamond and Massachusetts. 

Corporal Augustus C. Bond, Aug. 17, 1863, at Mason's Island, D. C, 

of typhoid fever. 

" Warren T. Small, Dec. 16, 1864, in prison at Salisbury, N. C. 

Artificer Wilbury L. Wallace, Sept. r, 1864, at City Point, Va., of fever. 

Private Samuel B. Ackley, June i r, 1864, at Alexandria, Va., of typhoid 

fever. 

" Francis G. Cain, Sept. 16, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of typhoid 

fever. 
" Lorenzo Cofifin, Nov. 23, 1864, at City Point, Va., of fever. 
'' Roland B. Donnell, Nov. 28, 1864, at Lee, Me., of diarrhoea. 
^' Charles H. Dunham. Feb. 25, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of 

measles. 
" Albert G. Fickett, Oct. 16, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of measles. 
" Franklin F. Foss, July, 1864, on transport Baltic, of typhoid 

fever. 
'* Daniel W. Hayes, June 18, 1864, at Baltimore, Md., of typhoid 
fever. 



43© THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Ellery B. Libby, Aug. 6, 1863, at Fort Sumner, of typhoid 
fever. 

" George W. Low, Feb. 25, 1865, at Steuben, Me., of diarrhoea. 

" Owen C. McKenzie, Oct. 16, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of 
diarrhoea. 

" Lewis Mitchell, June 21, 1864, on battle field, of exhaustion. 

" Josiah D. Pineo, Oct. 4, 1862, at Washington, of typhoid fever. 

" George W. Pinkham, July 31, 1864, at New York, of diarrhoea 
and fever. 

'' John T. Pinkham, July 6, 1864, at Washington, of fever. 

*' Nathaniel W. Pinkham, July 17, 1864, in Andersonville prison, 
of diarrhoea 

" Edwin N. Pratt, May 2, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of fever. 

" Joseph S. Ridley, July 6, 1864, at City Point, Va., of typhoid 
fever. 

" James H. Rogers, May 14, 1864, at Fort Mansfield, of fever. 

" Enos Sawyer, Aug. 2, 1864, in Andersonville prison, of diar- 
rhoea. 

" Thacher Severance, Sept. 29, 1864, at Washington, of diar- 
rhoea. 

" George S. Tabbitts, July 26, 1864, at Alexandria, Va., of fever. 

" Seward W. Tucker, Aug. 14, 1864, Springfield, Me., of diar- 
rhoea. 

" James W. Wallace, Oct. 23, 1862, at Washington, of typhoid 
fever. 

" Warren C. Wallace, Oct. 8, 1864, at Cherryfield, Me., of fever. 

" Daniel L. Wilkinson, Oct. 27, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of 
typhoid fever. 

" Aaron L. Worster, Oct. 16, 1864, at New York, of diarrhoea. 

Company I. 

Private Augustus Goodwin, Aug. 28, 1864, in Andersonville prison, of 
diarrhoea. 

" Andrew D. Hall, Sept. 17, 1864, at City Point, Va., of diar- 
rhoea. 

'' William Harris, Sept. 26, 1862, at Georgetown, D. C, of 
typhoid fever. 

" Isaac J. Maybury, July 15, 1864, at Washington, of typhoid 
fever. 



DFATHS BY DISEASE OR ACCIDENT. 43 1 

Private George F. Morton, Feb. 28, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of measles. 

" Wentworth Nason, Nov. 6, 1862, at Camp Stetson, of typhoid 
fever. 

'' Henry Pooler, Jan. 29, 1865, at Philadelphia, Pa., of pneu- 
monia. 

" Oliver Porter, March 31, 1865, at Old Town, Me. 

Company K. 

Sergeant John T. Ward, March 10, 1865, at Eastport, Me., of diar- 
rhoea. 
Corporal Abner S. Farrow, Oct. 8, 1862, at Washington. 

" Thomas McLaughlin, April 27, 1864, at Battery Cameron, 
suddenly. 
Private Henry E. Archer, Jan. 26, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of small-pox. 

" William Cone, Feb. 15, 1864, at Battery Cameron. 

" Benjamin L. Crowell, Jan. 28, 1 864, at Washington, of small-pox. 

" Daniel Kennedy, July 15, 1864, at Division Hospital. 

" Asa McFea, Sept. 16, 1864, at Fort Jefferson, Fla. 

" George L. Motz, Nov. 23, 1862, at Washington. 

'' Patrick Murphy, March 14, 1863, at Battery Cameion, of 
typhoid fever. 

" Warren L. Piper, April 20, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of pneu- 
monia. 

'' Wihiam A. Smith, April 12, 1865, at Washington. 

" Alfred M. Sprague, Jan. 28, 1864, at Washington, of small- 
pox. 

" Albion K. Tripp, Dec. 22, 1864, at Washington. 

Company L. 

Sergeant George B. Derby, March 12, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of con- 
gestion of lungs. 
Corporal James P. Newell, Aug. r, 1864. in Andersonville prison. 

" Joseph A. Pitcher, Feb. 21, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of measles. 
Private John J. Bragdon, July 25, 1864, at New York, of lung fever. 
" Benjamin L. Bridges, Aug. 28, 1864, at Augusta, Me., of fever. 
" Charles H. Carson, April 19, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of con- 
sumption. 
" Erastus B. Clements, Aug. 3r, 1864, at AnnapoHs, Md., of 
typhoid fever. 



432 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Private Austin P. Griffin, May 31, 1864, at Washington, of pneu- 
monia. 

" David B. Hamor, May 8, 1865, at City Point, Va. 

" Russell L. Knight, July 10, 1865, at Fort Baker, D. C. 

" Charles H. Nason, Aug. i, 1864, at Washington, of typhoid 
fever. 

"" David Owen, Feb. 23, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of measles. 

" Joseph V. Rackliff, July i, 1864, at City Point, Va., of typhoid 
fever. 

" Freeman C. Sawyer, April 8, 1864, ^t Fort Sumner, of measles. 

'^ Daniel Smith, March i, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of measles. 

" John W. Young, Feb. 22, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of measles. 

Company M. 

Artificer Samuel R. Cromwell, Jan. 27, 1865, in Andersonville prison. 
Private George B. Brastow, June 21, 1864, at City Point, Va., of 
typhoid fever. 
Thomas B. Drysdale, Aug. 13, 1864, in Andersonville prison. 
John H. Haskell, March 2, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of measles. 
Charles H. Johnson, Oct. 6, 1864, at Washington, of diarrhoea. 
Phineas P. Jones, Sept. 7, 1865, at Fort Foote, Md. 
Ebenezer B. Ordway, May i, 1864, at Fort Sumner, of conges- 
tion of lungs. 



RECAPITULATION, 



Field and Staff 



Company 



A 

B 

C 

D 

E 

F 

G 

H 

1 

K 

L 

M 



3 

22 

17 

25 
16 

17 

15 

24 

32 
8 

14 
16 

7 



Total 



2 16 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 



433 



Our total losses in battle, including the siege of Petersburg, amounted 
to 441 killed in action or died of wounds ; 923 wounded who recovered, 
and 64 prisoners of whom 27 died in prison; or a total in killed and 
wounded of 1,364, and with the 64 prisoners added, a total of 1,428. 
These losses occurred in eighteen different actions. The regiment 
took part in two other considerable battles, those of the First Deep 
Bottom late in July, 1864, and the action at Hatcher's Pun early in 
February, 1865, where they suffered no loss. The loss in killed and 
wounded in this regiment far exceeds that in any other regiment in the 
Union armies during the Civil War. 

Our total loss in killed and died of wounds was 441, against 361 in 
the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery which was second in the list. 
Our loss at Petersburg was the largest of any regiment in a single 
action, the killed and died of wounds being 242, against 207 in the 
Eighth New York Heavy Artillery at Cold Harbor, while our loss at 
Spottsylvania of 155 in killed and died of wounds was the third heaviest 
regimental loss in a single action during the war. 

The loss to the regiment during one thirty days, from May 19 to 
June 18, 1864, inclusive, was 404 killed and died of wounds, 790 
wounded, and 15 prisoners, making a total loss of 1,209. 

During the three days' battle of Petersburg, the Second Army Corps, 
composed of 84 regiments and 14 batteries, lost 59 commissioned 
ofihcers in killed and died of wounds, 14 of whom, or almost 24 per 
cent, were officers of the First Maine Heavy Artillery. 

The number of men in the regiment who went into action at Spott- 
sylvania was approximately 1,600, and our loss of 530 in killed and 
wounded in that action was practically one third of the number en- 
gaged, although probably 50 of the slightly wounded did not leave the 
command, and many of them were either killed or wounded on 
June 18th. 

The number of men who participated in the Petersburg charge of 
June 1 8th was somewhat less than 900, and our loss of 614 in killed 
and wounded was more than two thirds of those engaged. The loss 
at Petersburg was reported at the time as 604 killed and wounded and 
28 missing, a total of 632. In compiling these records it has been 
found that most of those reported missing on the monthly return of 



434 ' THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

June, 1864, were killed or died of wounds on the field. It was impos- 
sible at that lime for the few survivors to account for all the men. 
Many fell in the onward rush or the retreat unnoticed by their com- 
rades, and, as we did not get possession of the field for many weeks, 
their fate could not be made certain until time proved that they were 
dead. 

Jt is.beUeved that the record here given, as far as it relates to the 
killed and died of wounds and to the prisoners, is full and substantially 
correct, but doubtless quite a number of the slightly wounded have 
been omitted for lack of record of the facts. The records in the Adju- 
tant-General's office are very deficient in specifying the wounded, and 
the reports published at the time in the newspapers, more or less so. 
Such report of our casualties at the battle of Petersburg omitted one 
whole company except the commissioned officers and was very deficient 
in other companies. 

The location of the wounds are here given as they were specified in 
the newspapers or have since been ascertained or verified by other 
records. The reports of the United States Pension Office and the 
papers on file in the State Pension Office, giving the location of pen- 
sionable wounds, have been of great assistance in getting at the facts. 

In the following lists of killed and died of wounds no date is given 
in individual cases where the soldier died on the field or on the day of 
battle, otherwise the date of death is given. 

This appalling list of casualties, all occurring between May 19, 1864, 
and April 7, 1865, inclusive, a period of only ten and one half months, 
probably cannot be paralleled in the history of civilized warfare. 

SPOTTSYLVANIA, MAY 1 9, 1 864. 

Co7npany A — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Corporal Daniel W. Snow, color guard. 
Private John O. Hughes, died May 26. 

'' Bealy Runnels, died August 9 

" George F. Stanwood, died June 25. 

" Adelbert Witham, died July 21. 

Wounded. 
Second Lieut. Prince A. Gatchell, spent ball, shin. 
Sergeant Luther Clay, spent ball, breast. 

" Benjamin Berry, gunshot, finger amputated. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 

Corporal Martin Scott, gunshot, hand. 

Private Michael Boucher, shell wound, left leg, severe. 

'' Marcellus L. Fisher, gunshot, left hand and wrist. 

" Amos Holt, gunshot, left arm amputated. 

- " Charles M. Lovejoy, gunshot, right hand amputated. 

P " WilHam Mansell, spent ball, right shoulder. 

*' John R. Morrill, gunshot, right side just under arm. 

" Hugh A. Morrison, gunshot, both thighs. 

" Horace L. Peasley, gunshot, right thigh. 

" William Pendleton, gunshot, right shoulder. 

" Benjamin Richardson, gunshot, hip, slight. 

'' John R. Towle, gunshot, right knee. 

'' Frederic H. Tucker, gunshot, finger. 

"■ Augustus M. Turner, gunshot, thigh. 

'' James Warren, gunshot, left thigh, slight. 

CoJJipany B — Killed <i?ul Died of Wounds.. 
Sergeant Addison C- Percival. 

" Samuel M. Bolton, died June 25. 

" Gustavus A. Watson, died September 7. 
Private Warren M. Brown. 

'• James M. Call, died May 20. 

" Jethro W. Clark. 

" Rosalvin P. Cowan. 
John C. Erskine. 

" Austin Q. French. 
Herbert T. Gibbs. 

" Nathan A. Hopkins. 

" Henry C. Hutchinson, died June 3. 

" Amaziah Langley, died May 27. 

'' James McGrath. 

" Charles H. McKenney, died May 20. 

" Thornton M. Pierce, died May 31. 

" George B. Robinson. 

*' Henry W. Rider, died May 22. 

" Lemuel B. Whitney. 

Wounded. 
Second Lieut. Isaac iN". Morgan, gunshot, eye destroyed. 
Sergeant Henry L. Thomas, gunshot, left leg. 



435 



436 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Corporal Herbert Leadbetter, gunshot, scrotum and groin, slight. 

" Willard E. Emery, gunshot, leg, slight. 

'* Sylvander G. Elliott, gunshot, right thigh. 

" Ezra McGray, gunshot, right index finger amputated. 

*' Isaiah B. Bolton, gunshot, leg. 
Private Benjamin F. Adams, gunshot, right thigh, severe. 

" Joseph H. Barnes, gunshot, left wrist and back, 

" Jeremiah T. Bowden, gunshot, right hand. 

" Artemas Butterfield, gunshot, right thigh. 

" Benjamin F. Buzzell, gunshot, right thigh. 

" James A. Courtney, gunshot, hand amputated. 

" Andrew M. Davis, gunshot, right lung. 

" George Delany, gunshot, right leg. 

" Isaac Duff, gunshot, head. 

" George Emerson, gunshot, side, slight. 1 [ 

" Alphonzo Fletcher, gunshot, slight. 

" John Fraser, gunshot, leg, slight. 

" George S. Gates, gunshot, left cheek bone. 

*• Benjamin Jackson, shell wound, right arm, and gunshot, righ 

hand, thumb and forefinger amputated. 

" Charles W. Johnson, gunshot, leg. 

" Thomas Loran, gunshot, hand. 

'• Patrick McCue, gunshot, right lower leg. 

" William W. Pomroy, gunshot, hand, slight. 

'' James B. Robbins, gunshot, left shin bone shattered. 

" John Speed, gunshot, left hand. 

*' Charles H. Stewart, gunshot, right side and right hand, thumt 

and two fingers amputated. 

*• Peter Tibdo, gunshot, left foot. 

" Charles T. Tvvombly, gunshot, left thij;h, very severe. 

Cornpafiy C — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

First Lieut. George W. Grant, died May 27. 
Sergeant Elliot J. Salsbury, died June i. 
Wagoner John Lynch, died Nov. 28. 
Private George W. Burns. 

" James Cain, died June 21. 

" William H. Campbell. 

'' Edward E. Emery. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 437 

Private Sidney S. Eldridge, died May 21. 

" Harrison Fogg. 

" Eben W. Foster. 

" John P. Higgins. 

" Francis G. Knowlton, died June i. 

"■ Christopher Miinch. 

" Edwin G. Marceys. 

" George Morrill. 

" George A. Smith. 

'' Isaac C. Staples. 

" Elijah H. Wasgatt. 

Captain Zemro A. Smith, gunshot, thigh. 
Sergeant Mark T. Richardson, gunshot, left leg. 
Corporal William F. Emerson, gunshot, right arm. 

" B-njamin Frazier, gunshot, both hips. 

" Stillman Gray, gunshot, face. 

" Cushman E. Harden, gunshot, right leg. 

" John J. Scott, gunshot, left ankle and thigh. 

Private Francis A. Blanchard, gunshot, face. 

" Smith C. Beverly, gunshot, leg. 

" Joseph S. Bonzey, gunshot, over right eye. 

•' Sylvester Bowden, gunshot, hand. 

" Edwin G. Brimmer, gunshot, left lower leg. 

" Benjamin S. Campbell, gunshot, left foot. 

" William B. Campbell, gunshot, right thigh amputated. 

" Levi Chapman, gunshot. 

" John Douglass, gunshot, hand. 

" Maurice Downey, gunshot, right arm. 

" John L. Emery, gunshot, shoulder. 

" William H Fox, gunshot, chest. 

" Alden H. Frazier, gunshot, foot. 

" Newell Garland, gunshot, right arm. 

" Ezra P. Gray, gunshot, right hand. 

" James H. Grover. gunshot, testicle. 

" Jeremiah Harrington, gunshot, right shoulder. 

'' Sewall F. Haskell, gunshot, left hand. 

" Richard Higgins, gunshot, elbow. 



438 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Charles W. Jellison, gunshot, right foot amputated. 
Peter McCabe, gunshot, shoulder and leg. 
Llewellyn McGown, gunshot, leg. 
John Murphy, gunshot. 
John Royal, gunshot, leg. 
Luther M. Royal, gunshot, both legs. 
Abraham Sargent, Jr., gunshot, left leg. 
Arthur L. Salsbury, gunshot, thigh. 
WiUiam P. Squire, gunshot, left arm. 
James R. Sutherland, gunshot, left knee. 
Edwin F. Smith, gunshot, left leg. 
Henry G. Smith, gunshot, left ankle. 
William Smith, gunshot. 
WiUiam H. U. Staten, gunshot, left hand. 
William H. Stanley, gunshot, right shoulder and left foot. 
Wellington Stralton, gunshot, chest. 
Ambrose H. Wasgatt, gunshot, right shoulder. 

Company D — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Corporal Charles W. Smith, color guard, died May 22. 

Wounded. 

First Lieut. George Rollins, gunshot, left thigh, severe. 

Corporal Lorenzo D. Hoyt, gunshot, ankle. 

Private Isaac Dunning, gunshot, nose, and spent ball on left arm. 

Company E — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

First Lieut. John F. Knowles. 
Sergeant Charles M. Parshley. 
Corporal Everett M. Delano, died May 26. 
" Eben W. Bean, died June 17. 
" Cyrus S. Labree. 

" Henry O. Smiley, color guard, died June 10. 
Private Emerson Bartlett. 

" John Bradford, died May 20. 

" Joseph F. Brown. 

'' Joshua L. Brown, died July 9. 

Seth H. Brown. 
" Albert Chadbourne. 



CASUALTIES OF RATTLE. 439 

Private Wilson G. Cole. 

" Samuel Flanders, died June 15. 

" Cyrus B. Hayes, died June 6. 

" Charles W. Hanson. 

" Flavil B. Jackson. 

" Francis D. Lindsey. 

" Leander Maxim. 

" Almon C. Morton, died May 29. 

Alfred B. Shea, died June 26. 
" Orrin A. Sidelinker, died June 10. 
" Royal H. Strout, died June 7. 

Wounded. 

Second Lieut, Benjamin F. Rollins, gunshot, left arm. 
Commissary Sergeant Jeremiah Daine, gunshot, right shoulder. 
Sergeant Charles H. Gatchell, gunshot, left foot amputated. 

Private Thomas Arnold, gunshot, right breast. 

*' Benjamin D, Averill, gunshot, ankle. 

" James A. Barnes, gunshot, head. 

" William Bartlett, gunshot, arm. 

" George H. Brown, gunshot, right hand. 

" William H. Brown, gunshot, right side and shoulder. 

" Elisha H. Broad, gunshot, penis and groin. 

" Ervin Chamberlain, gunshot, left forearm. 

" Lucian H Chase, gunshot, left thigh and left lower leg. 

'• Henry A. Evans, gunshot, fingers. 

" Alton P. Fassett, gunshot. 

" James Fish, gunshot, left heel and ankle. 

" Albion K. Fletcher, gunshot, left leg. 

" Charles Fogg, gunshot, left forearm. 

*' George W. Greenough, gunshot, wrist. 

" Gustavus B. Hiscock, gunshot, left thigh, very severe. 

" Charles J. House, gunshot, neck, and spent ball, right shin. 

" Aaron W. Jackson, spent ball, right shin. 

" Bradish B. Jackson, gunshot, right side of head. 

" George P. Leighton, gunshot, left hand. 

" Charles P. Lindsey, gunshot, right shoulder. 

" Francis J. Lord, gunshot, slight. 

" Henry H. Lufkin, gunshot, side. 



440 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Benjamin C. Lyford, gunshot, right arm. 

" Andrew W. McFarland, gunshot, right leg. 

" Harrison P. Mclntire, gunshot, left forearm. 

" Delvin B. Merrill, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Randall C. Noyes, gunshot, left shoulder. 

" Amos D. Orne, gunshot, left leg. 

" James R. Orne, gunshot, right arm, slight. 

" James W. Overlook, gunshot, right shoulder. 

" David Palmer, gunshot, arm. 

'' David O. Pollard, gunshot, thigh. 

" William S. Randlett, gunshot, head. 

" Andrew J. Reaves, gunshot, right forefinger amputated. 

" John P. Roberts, left shoulder and breast, slight. 

" William L. Sampson, gunshot, right lung. 

" George Smith, gunshot, right arm. 

" Wentworth Staples, gunshot, arm. 

" Henry W. Stearns, gunshot. 

'' Domingo C. Thompson, gunshot, right shoulder. 

'' Leonard H. Washburn, gunshot over left eye. 

" Osborn Weeman, gunshot, hand. 

" Charles E. Weld, gunshot, right lower leg. 

Private David J. Whitney, exchanged November 19, 1864. 

Company F — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Sergeant Wilham M. Stevenson, died June 23. 
Artificer Sylvester Drew, died May 28. 
Private Franklin C. Barwise. 

" Darius G. Brown. 

" Alvah M. Chick. 

" Charles R. Clark. 

" Jacob B. Holmes, died June 7. 

" Charles W. Jones, died May 28. 

" Levi K. Mayo, died July i. 

" Thomas L. May. 

'' Harrison L. Mitchell. 

" Andrew Patterson. 

" Alphonso Smith, died May 20. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 44 T 

Private Samuel Snow. 

" Henry F. Stubbs, died July 19. 

" Rodney J. Taylor, died June 5. 

'' Frank Voyer. 

" David B. Wiggin, died June 8. 

" Abijah T. Young, died May 20. 

Woi/fided. 

Capt. Roscoe F. Hersey, gunshot, foot. 
First Lieut. Horace H. Shaw, gunshot, left foot. 
Second Lieut. Gardiner H. Ruggles, gunshot, slight. 
First Sergeant James A. Dole, gunshot, breast, slight. 
Sergeant Luther K. Patten, gunshot, arm. 

" John W. Blake, gunshot, right thigh. 

" Edward C. Tuttle, gunshot, left wrist. 

" George E. Gilman, gunshot, shoulder. 
Corporal Edwin K. Stuart, gunshot, right hand and right shoulder. 

" Bradley W. Abbott, gunshot, shoulder. 

" Daniel R. Stevenson, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Allison Blackden, gunshot, right shoulder. 
Wagoner Lafayette Brown, spent ball, leg. 
Private David W. Barrett, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Joseph Carter, gunshot, right thigh. 

" Frederic L. Clark, gunshot, left hand and left groin. 

" Robert C. Dunaff, gunshot, elbow, slight. 

" Aaron W. Edgerly, gunshot, left leg. 

" Otis W. Ellis, gunshot, abdomen. 

*' Isaac W. Grant, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Orrington Gowen, gunshot, right thigh. 

" Amos E. Hardy, gunshot, right thigh, and buckshot in right 
breast. 

" Orriu Houston, gunshot, right leg. 

" Francis E. Joy, gunshot, arm. 

Andrew. S. Knight, gunshot, left ring finger amputated. 

*' David A. Legro, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Broadstreet Mason, gunshot, right foot. 

" Charles H. Maddocks, gunshot. 

" Ambrose Nason, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Peter Patterson, gunshot, right side. 



442 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Nathaniel D. Philbrook, gunshot, head. 

" Henry W. Pomroy, gunshot, right knee. 

" Selden Rogers, gunshot, head. 

" John W. Shaw, gunshot, left leg. 

" Charles B. Smith, gunshot, leg. 

" John W. Smith, gunshot, right leg and left hip. 

" Lowell M. Stevenson, gunshot, foot. 

" Melvin S. Stevenson, gunshot, right breast and left thigh. 

" James Turner, Jr., gunshot, left thigh. 

" James E. Wentworth, gunshot, left wrist. 

" Charles P. Wheeler, gunshot. 

" Hezekiah Whitcomb, gunshot, left arm. 

" Oliver Wiley, gunshot, head. 

" George A. York, gunshot, face. 

Company G — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

First Sergeant Sewall T. Douglass, died Sept. 26. 
Private Timothy C. Atkinson, died May 30. 

" George A. Bonsey. 

" Charles W. Gray. 

" Charles Prue. 

" Clinton D. Saunders. 

Wounded. 

Sergeant James A. Ripley, gunshot, left shoulder. 
Corporal Woodman C. Huntoon, gunshot, right forearm. 

" John E. Ginn, gunshot, right wrist and shoulder. 
Private Asa Batchelder, gunshot, arm, slight. 

*' Henry W. Casey, gunshot, arm. 

" Joseph M. Currier, gunshot, skull. 

'' David L. Dodge, gunshot, right shoulder and lung. 

" Charles H. Frazier, gunshot, leg. 

" Floriman D. Furbish, gunshot, right forearm. 

" Obed Leach, gunshot, right leg. 

" John McLaughlin, gunshot, face. 

*' John Murphy, gunshot, left groin. 

" Thornton E. Peavey, gunshot, hand. 

" Gilman Pike, gunshot, knee. 

" Nathaniel Spaulding, gunshot, neck. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 443 

Private Willard E. Suckforth, gunshot, left hand. 

" EUas Webber, Jr., shell, right breast and left foot. 

Prisoner. 
Private Kenney Depray. Never heard from. 

Compaiiy H— Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Corporal Philander D. Low, died June 28. 
Private Joseph L. Downes. 

" Granville Dunham, died June 28. 

"■ Alexander Parker. 

" Edmund Perry. 

Wounded. 

Corporal Michael Cunningham, gunshot, left hand, left arm and right 

shoulder. 
Private Arthur D. Bumps, gunshot, arm. 

" James H. Brazzle, gunshot, left hand. 

" Hanson Cole, gunshot, arm. 

'* George L. Fitzgerald, spent balls, left knee and left side. 

" Benjamin H. Foss, gunshot, left thigh and arm. 

" George W. Low, gunshot, slight. 

" Sherman L. Tucker, gunshot, left arm. 

" Thomas Williamson, gunshot, left arm. 

Coinpany I — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Sergeant Ithamar D. Morton. 

Corporal John F. Hodgkins, died May 20. 

Private Ira Chapman, died June 28. 

" George W. Derocher, died Feb. 20, 1865. 

" Oval Derocher, died June 10. 

" Henry H. Doane, died June i. 

'' Levi Doane, died Aug. 29. 

" Richard Dowdell. 

" William Grover, died June 2. 

" David Lord, died May 23. 

" Whitefield Mills. 

" Jerome Mitchell, died July 9. 



444 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Isaiah Randall, died Aug. 2. 
Frank St. Pierre. 
" Benjamin D. Soule. 
'' John A. Trickey, died June 8. 
" True W. Wedgwood. 

Captain Andrew J. Jaquith, gunshot, shoulder, slight. 
First Lieut. Richard V. Moore, gunshot, right leg. 
Sergeant Charles M. Weymouth, gunshot, foot. 

" Adelbert F. Sproule, gunshot, slight. 
" Isaac Q. Freeze, gunshot. 
Corporal John A. Cousins, gunshot, left foot amputated. 

" John B. Curtis, gunshot. 
" Edwin F. Lord, gunshot. 
" James M. Moore, gunshot, abdomen. 

" Edmund C. Parsons, gunshot. 
Artificer George F. Springer, gunshot, left leg. 
Private EH Andrews, gunshot, right thigh. 

" WilHam S. Averill, gunshot, right tibia. 

" Charles W. BQsworth, gunshot, thigh amputated May 24, 1864, 
and Jan. 8, 1868. 

" Ephraim L. Brawn, gunshot, left arm, right shoulder, and right 
side. 

" Charles A. Burgess, gunshot, left leg. 

" Joshua L. Clark, gunshot. 

" Elijah K. Cleaveland, gunshot, left leg, wrist, and shoulder. 

" Joseph W. Cottle, gunshot, right leg. 

" William H. Doughty, gunshot, right thigh. 

" John A. Dowst, gunshot, face. 

" Ithamar Emerson, gunshot. 

" Daniel J. Flanders, gunshot. 

" Alverdo W. Ford, gunshot, right foot. 

" James F. Getchell, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Thomas Gilbert, gunshot. 

" John Gilpatrick, gunshot, right leg, and buckshot in right wrist. 

" Theodore H. Graff am, gunshot, right chest and right elbow. 

" Selden Hancock, gunshot, right arm amputated. 

" Charles H. Hardy, gunshot, left thigh. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 44^ 

Private Nicholas Harris, gunshot, right jaw and neck. 

Rollins Hammon, gunshot, right forefinger amputated. 

William L. Holmes, gunshot, right foot amputated. 

Upham A. Hoyt, gunshot, groin. 

Justin M. Leavitt, gunshot, left leg. 

Henry Pooler, gunshot. 

John L. Rollins, gunshot, head, right eye destroyed. 

Henry Rowe, gunshot. 

Leander Russell, gunshot, right lower leg. 

Arthur G. Sawyer, gunshot, right hip and ankle and left leg. 

Gilman J. Shaw, gunshot, both feet. 

George H. Smith, gunshot. 

George E. Tibbetss, gunshot, right leg. 

Lorenzo Warren, gunshot. 

George C. Waters, gunshot, left leg. 

Daniel W. Winchester, gunshot, left thigh. 

Thomas B. Worcester, gunshot, left index finger amputated. 

Leander R. Young, gunshot. 

Company K — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Captain William R. Pattangall. 
First Lieut. Gershom C. Bibber. 
Sergeant Charles H. Moore, died May 24. 
Corporal Ambrose A. Huntley. 

" Jeremiah Loring. 

'' Henry W. Motz. 
Private George E. Bradbury. 

" Samuel Collier. 

" John J. Dority, died May 25. 

'• Reuben C. Fickett. 

" James T. Mack. 

" George P. Potter, died May 25. 

" Nathaniel Treadwell, Jr. 
Brazilla F. Whiting. 

" Franklin York. 

Wounded, 

Sergeant Robert Smith, gunshot, very slight. 
" Eldward B. Kilby, gunshot, wrist. 



446 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Sergeant Enoch L. Hanscom, gunshot, slight flesh wound. 

" John T. Ward, gunshot, very sHght. 
Corporal Edward J. Gilligan, gunshot, right thigh. 

" Hiram Smith, gunshot, hand. 

*' Robert C. Clark, gunshot, right shoulder. 

'* Andrew Hall, gunshot, foot. 

" Abijah Ayer, gunshot, very slight. 

" Christopher C. Huntley, gunshot, left shoulder and right 
arm. 
Artificer Isaiah L. Lincoln, gunshot, foot. 

Private Philander C. Brawn, gunshot, left index finger amputated. 

" John Cambridge, gunshot. 

" Arthur S. Chickering, gunshot. 

" Parrion W. Cook, gunshot, head. 

"^ Samuel J. Crosby, gunshot, left chest. 

" Ezra Dean, gunshot, slight. 

" James Finn, gunshot, left side. 

" Andrew J. Harmon, gunshot, left foot. 

" George H. Hay ward, gunshot, neck and down through back. 

" Horace Howes, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Charles T. Huntley, gunshot, left lower leg. 

" George W. Jewell, shell, left foot. 

" William B. Kief, gunshot, left leg, severe. 

" Taylor Larrabee, gunshot, dangerous. 

" Daniel Littlefield, gunshot. 

" Nehemiah Littlefield, run over by team, badly hurt. 

" Reubin Lyon, gunshot, left forearm. 

" Barnard McDavit, gunshot, head. 

" Francis McLaughlin, gunshot, hand. 

" John D. Mailer, gunshot, right lung. 

" iLlbridge G. Nelson, gunshot, left leg. 

" Walter Owen, gunshot, slight. 

" David Page, spent ball, stomach. 

" Henry Pomroy, gunshot. 

*' Josiah T. Potter, gunshot, right leg. 

" John W. Presley, gunshot, right side. 

" Charles W. Robbins, gunshot, right leg. 

" J. F. William Richter, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Isaac Shaw, gunshot, thigh. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 

Private Stephen M. Smith, gunshot, right leg. 
" John P. Sprague, gunshot, leg. 
" Ephraim W. Stewart, gunshot, right leg. 
" Isaac Watson, gunshot, severe. 
" George E. Wilder, gunshot, left hand and breast. 

Company L — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Captain William T. Parker. 

Second Lieut. Wilmot T. Vickery, died May 26. 

Corporal Fields Baston. 

Private George W. Beede, died July 30. 

" Webster Brown. 

" Ephraim Bowley, died May 28. 

" Edward P. Chaplin. 

" Franklin Chapman, died June 25. 

" John L. Crooker, died June 24. 

" Nelson W. Edwards, died June 23. 

" Hiram S. Emerson, died May 31. 

" Charles S. George, died June 16. 

" Daniel W. Kilbourne, died June 2. 

*• Henry H. Newman. 
Irad Walker, Jr. 

Wounded. 

First Sergeant George E. Dodge, gunshot, breast, slight. 
Sergeant Cassius C Roberts, gunshot, hand, slight. 

" Joseph A. Burlingame, gunshot, head, slight. 
Corporal David F. Gilman, gunshot, head. 

'' James R. Creasey, gunshot, right breast. 

" Daniel O. Bowen, gunshot, right thigh. 

'' Charles H. Noyes, gunshot, left shoulder. 

'' David A. Chase, gunshot. 
Artificer John M. Hamlin, gunshot. 
Private George M. Brown, gunshot. 

'' Virgil D. Bowley, gunshot. 

" Charles Call, gunshot, both thighs. 

" Heman Case, gunshot. 

" Charles Downes, gunshot, right side. 

" Levi W. French, gunshot, both arms, resection left forearm. 



447 



448 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Hiram J. Grant, gunshot, left arm and right lumbar region. 

" Daniel Green, gunshot, left hand. 

" Henry A. Higgins, gunshot, head. 

" Ehsha James, Jr., gunshot, left hand. 

" William W. Kilbourne, gunshot through abdomen. 

"■ William King, gunshot. 

" Stephen O. Lilley, gunshot, right thigh amputated. 

" Joseph C. Love, gunshot, right leg. 

" Herrick Lufkin, gunshot, left arm. 

" George W. Luce, gunshot, left side. 

" George W. Maddox, gunshot, neck and back. 

" John V. Maxfield, gunshot, left arm. 

" Joseph R. Mears, gunshot, left arm. 

" Henry S. Moulton, shell and splinters, right side, ribs fractured 

'' Loom is T. Nickerson, gunshot. 

" Nathan E. Nickerson, gunshot, left leg. 

'' Albert J. Osgood, gunshot. 

'' John H. Quimby, gunshot, left shoulder and left side of head. 

" William H. Richmond, gunshot, left hand, two fingers ampu- 
tated. 

" John C. Rogers, gunshot, left side and left lung. 

" James H. Stinson, gunshot, face. 

" Benjamin C. Studley, gunshot, right hand. 

" William H. Talbot, gunshot, right arm. 

'' Benson L. Trundy, gunshot, left shoulder. 

'' James H. Towle, gunshot, right arm. 

" Horace C. Webber, gunshot, left thigh broken, leg shortened. 

Company M — Killed an I Died of Wounds. 

Corporal Isaac A. Billington, died Aug. 16, 1865. 

Private Orrin W. Brann, died July 11. 

" William H. DeWolf, died June 11. 

'' Alfred J. Douglass, died June 11. 

" Isaac H. Davis. 

'* Horace C. Griffin. 

" Charles McMann. 

" James Merrill. 

" Henry H. Mitchell. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 



449 



Private Ira B. Robbins. 
" Charles E. Smiley. 
" Timothy Spencer. 



Wounded. 



Captain Frederic A. Cummings, gunshot, left breast, slight, watch de- 
molished. 
Sergeant David A. Knowles, gunshot, left forearm. 
Corporal John S. Foster, gunshot, hand. 
Edward Lyford, gunshot, leg. 
William W. Pratt, gunshot, left lung and shoulder. 
William C. Bridge, gunshot, shoulder. 
Henry A. Ramsdell, gunshot, neck. 
Private Henry G. Barlow, gunshot, hand. 

Hiram Batchelder, gunshot, right shoulder. 

Andrew Clendennin, gunshot, left thigh and ankle. 

Hartley B. Cox, gunshot, left thigh. 

William B. Cox, gunshot, leg. 

George A. Freeman, gunshot, right hand and foot. 

Daniel B. Friend, gunshot, right foot. 

Charles G. Herrin, gunshot, head. 

Mark P. Kelley, gunshot, left thigh. 

Alvah B. Knight, gunshot, head. 

Benjamin Leach, gunshot, right thigh. 

Hezekiah C. Moore, gunshot, right hand, two fingers ampu- 
tated. 

David M. Morgan, gunshot, leg. 

Starling Mower, gunshot, right arm. 

Timothy Nichols, gunshot, right shoulder, arm useless. 

WilHam H. Over, gunshot, left leg. 

Charles D Robbins, gunshot, foot and shoulder. 

George W. Speed, gunshot, both knees and right side. 

Charles M. Staples, gunshot, wrist, shght. 

Virgil D. Sweetland, gunshot, left side, rib broken. 

Smith A. Symonds, gunshot, left groin. 

Oscar Tracey, gunshot, right shoulder. 

Josiah M. Whittier, gunshot, head. 



450 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



RECAPITULATION. 



Company 


A. 




B. 




C. 




D. 




E. 




F. 




G. 




H. 




I. 




K. 




L. 




M. 



Killed and 




died 


Wound 


of wounds. 




5 


18 


19 


30 


18 


43 


I 


3 


23 


47 


19 


44 


6 


17 


5 


9 


17 


48 


15 


45 


15 


41 


12 


30 



Prisoners. 



Fotal 



155 



375 



MILFORD STATION, MAY 2 1, 1864. 

Comp.i7iy D — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Private Albert! J. Dunbar. 

Prisoner. 
Private George k. Haskell, died in prison. 

Company I — Prisoner. 
Private Augustus Goodwin, died in prison, August 28. 



RECAPITULATION. 

Killed and 

died Wounded. 

of wounds, 

I - 



Company D 
^' I 

Total 



Prisoners. 



Total. 
23 

49 

61 

71 

63 

24 

14 

65 

60 

56 
42 

532 



Total. 



NORTH ANNA, MAY 23-26, 1864, 

Company A — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private Thomas H. Griffin, died June 22. 



CASUALTIES OF UATTLE, 



451 



Company B — Wounded. 
Private Samuel Gibson, shell wound, right thigh. 

" Charles Speed, gunshot, hand, little finger amputated. 

Co mpa ny D — \ Vo u n ded. 
Private David Ames, gunshot, right hand. 

Company H — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private Lafayette iVIurray, died July 5. 

Wounded. 
Private WilmotN. Burk, gunshot, right hand, two fingers amputated. 
" Andrew J. Lombard, gunshot, foot. 
" Albert C. Phinney, gunshot, right forefinger amputated. 



Company A 
B 
D 
H 

Total 

HANOVERTOWN AND TOTOPOTOMOV, MaV 2 8-3 1, 1864. 

Company A — Wounded. 
Private Benjamin Dow, gunshot, leg. 

Company B — Wounded. 
Private William M. Erskine, gunshot, left foot amputated. 

Com piny C — Wounded. 
Private Bloomfield T. Richardson, gunshot, leg. 

Co?npaiiy D — Wounded. 
Private Ebenezer D. Harlow, gunshot, lower jaw. 

Company G — PrisoJiers. 
Private Charles D. Tirrell, exchanged Nov. 20. 

'• Roscoe Trevitt, died in Florida in Rebel prison. 



CA 


PITULATION. 












Killed and 

died 
of wounds. 


Wo 


unded. 


Prisoners. 


Total. 




I 




- 


- 


I 




- 




2 


- 


2 




- 




I 


- 


1 


. 


1 




3 


- 


4 



452 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Company H — Killed. 
Sergeant Fernando C. Plummer. 

Wounded. 

Sergeant Charles Emerson, shell wound, left arm. 
Private Ezra C. Gray, left thigh and scrotum. 



Private Richard Sears. 



Company K — Killed. 



Wounded. 



Corporal CorneHus Nickerson, shell wound, leg amputated. 

" William H. Wilder, shell wound, right shoulder. 
Private Hiram Farley, shell wound, slight. 

Co?npany L — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private Franklin Campbell, killed on picket. 

Prisoner. 
Corporal James P. Newell, died in prison about August i. 

Compa?iy M — Wounded. 
Private Orlando Moore, gunshot, back. 



Company A 


u 


\\ 


(( 


C 


<. 


1) 


u 


G 


<< 


H 


(( 


K 


<c 


L 


<( 


M 



Total 



RECAPITULATION, 

Killed and 

died 
of wounds. 



Wounded. Prisoners. 

J - 

I - 

I - 

1 — 
- 2 

2 — 
3 



Total 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 453 

COLD HARBOR, JUNE 2-I3, 1864. 

Company A — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private Andrew J. Dill, hit on picket June 12, died July 21. 

Wounded, 

Private Nathan C. Cole, gunshot, left hand. 
" Levi D. Curtis, gunshot, left leg. 
" John Fleming, gunshot, left hand. 
" William J. Smith, gunshot, right hand amputated. 

Prisoners. 

Private Isaac E. Bowley, died Jan. 11, 1865, in Andersonville prison. 
" Addison C. Keen, died Aug. 9 in prison at Richmond. 
'• Francis L. Philbrook, died Aug. 3 in Andersonville prison. 
" Frederick Philbrook, died Nov. i6 in Andersonville prison. 
" Eri Rowe, died Aug. 10 in prison at Richmond. 

Company C — Wounded. 
Private Ezra N. Curtis, gunshot. 

Company D — Wounded. 

Private Roscoe G. Johnson, gunshot, hit twice, slight. 
" Nathan Knowlton, gunshot. 
" Edward K. Moulton, gunshot, hit twice, slight. 
" Theodore C. Stevens, gunshot, foot. 

Company E — Wounded. 

Corporal Leonard E. Howard, gunshot, left foot. 
Private Albert Hayes, grape-shot, right shoulder, slight. 

" Henry W. Stearns, eye injured by exploding shell, resulting later 
in loss of eye. 

Company F — Wounded. 
Corporal Fred A. Chamberlain, gunshot, back. 

Company G — Wounded. 
Private Edwin P. Hill, gunshot, ankle, slight. 



454 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Compaiiy H — Wounded. 
Private William L. Allen, gunshot, left arm and left side. 
" Phineas S. Bennett, gunshot. 

Prisoners. 
Private Nathaniel W. Pinkham, died in prison July 17. 
" Enos Sawyer, died in prison Aug. 2. 

Company I — Wounded. 
Private George B. Stinson, gunshot. 

Co))ipany L — Wounded. 
Sergeant George H. Cakes, gunshot, foot. 
Private Hiram S. James, gunshot, left foot. 
" Willard Page, gunshot, shoulder. 

Company M — Wounded. 
Wagoner Joel A. Dorr, gunshot. 
Private Isaiah L. Jones, gunshot. 

" William H. Merrill, gunshot, right hand, two fingers amputated. 

" Ferdinand Palmer, gunshot. 

" Rufus H. Rooks, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Frederick Stanhope, gunshot. 

" John G. Tibbetts, gunshot, left foot amputated. 





RECAPITULATION. 










Killed and 










died 


Wounded.. 


Prisoners. 


Total. 


Company A 


of wounds. 


4 


5 


10 


'^ C . . 




. 


I 




I 


" D . . 




- 


4"- 


- 


4 


'^ E . . 




- 


3 


- 


3 


" F . . 




- 


I 


- 


I 


" G . . . 




- 


I 


— 


I 


'^ H . . 




- 


2 


2 


4 


'' I . . 




- 


I 


- 


I 


" L . . 




- 


3 


- 


3 


' M . . 




- 


7 


- 


7 









— 


— 


— 



Total 



27 



35 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 455 

PETERSBURG, JUNE 1 6- 1 8, 1 864. 
FIELD AND STAFF. 

Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Major George W. Sabine, died \fay 26, 1865. 

Wounded. 

Major Russell B. Shepherd, gunshot, stomach, saved by belt buckle. 

" Christopher V. Grossman, gunshot, severe. 
Sergeant Major Nathan M. Mills, gunshot, arm amputated. 

Company A — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Sergeant Jonathan Glay, Jr. 

" Moses P. Wing, died July 12. 
Gorporal Amasa S. Flagg. 

" Daniel Fitzpatrick. 
Private Scribner H. Davis. 

" George Duren, died April 10, 1865. 

" Henry W. Howard. 

" Cyrus A. Lord. 

" Daniel McCurdy. 

" John Murphy. 

*' Joseph Pooler, died July 14. 

" John C. Ritchie, died June 24. 

" Andrew J. Rowe, died July 29. 

" John B. Scott, died June 19. 

Wounded. 

Capt. Charles W. Nute, gunshot, ankle. 

First Lieut. Samuel E. Burnham, gunshot, ankle. 

" Charles Merrill, gunshot, slight. 

Sergeant Arthur P. Budge, gunshot, left hand. 

" John H. Taylor, gunshot, leg. 
Corporal Benjamin M. Griffin, gunshot, left hand, finger amputated. 

'' William Harmon, gunshot, left leg. 
Artificer Herod Robinson, gunshor, left hip. 

'' Jonathan G. Rideout, gunshot through hips. 
Wagoner Lyman H. Dolley, shell wound, chin. 



456 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Jeremiah S. Bartlett, gunshot, right knee. 

" Manley S. Brown, gunshot, hip. 

" Otis H. Bruce, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Charles W. Carson, shell wound, left hand, two fingers 

amputated. 

" John P. Crowley, gunshot. 

'' John A. Davis, gunshot, right chest. 

" Simon Devou, gunshot, right arm amputated. 

'* Charles H. Dill, gunshot, left thigh and forehead. 

" George W. Hooper, gunshot, face and neck. 

" Edward Jenness, gunshot, right shoulder. 

" Nathaniel Ladd, gunshot, left arm and chest. 

" Charles H. Lancaster, gunshot, left foot. 

'' Thomas G. Libby, gunshot, left hand, two fingers amputated. 

" Charles H. Morrison, gunshot, left lung. 

'^ Horatio Nelson, gunshot, right arm and breast. 

" Isaac L. Olmstead, gunshot, right ankle. 

" Hiram D. Raymond, gunshot, left side and through face. 

" George W. Sprague, gunshot, both lower legs, right knee and 

left thigh. 

" Charles W. Stewart, gunshot, thigh. 

" William H. Stewart, gunshot, finger amputated. 

" Thomas Sullivan, gunshot, right thigh. 

" Thomas B. Walker, gunshot, both thighs and left shouleer. 

" James Warren, shell wound, right leg. 

'' William L. Warren, gunshot, left ankle. 

Company B — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Captain Samuel W. Daggett, died July i. 
Second Lieut. Albert G. Abbott. 
Sergeant Charles H. Whittier, died June 28. 
Corporal Herbert Leadbetter. 

" Calvin R. Billington, died in Dedham, Me. (unknown date). 

*' George F. Marquis. 

" Charles H. Daggett, died June 30. 
Private William Alexander. 

" William Allen, died June 20. 

" William Bardett, died July 6. 

'' Lysander Bragg, died June 21. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 457 

Private John Coffin. 

James A. Cole, died June 21. 

Charles A. Coloray. 

Leander F. Elliott, died June 21. 

John Fraser. 

Edward VV. Gorham. 

James A. Grant. 

Charles N. Leavitt, died July 12. 

Alphonzo Miller, died June 25. 

David R. Mills, died July 9, 

Jacob Mudgett, died June 20. 

Hoyt R. Parks, died July 25. 

Franklin S. Playze. 

William W. Pomroy, died June 28. 

Thomas Savage, died June 25. 

John S. Smith, died July 3. 

Moses H. Stewart, died June 25. 

Joseph O. Ward, died Sept. 24. 

William White. 

Wounded. 

First Lieut. Andrew J. Hilton, left thigh. 

First Sergeant Heman P. Smith, shell wound, left thigh. 

Sergeant William A. Webster, both legs, one leg amputated. 

" Freeman D. Gove, shell wound, right hip, gunshot left foot 
and left thigh. 

" William K. Nason, gunshot, head, breast and leg, very severe. 
Corporal Simeon A. Hapworth, gunshot, both thighs. 

" George H. Robbins, gunshot, left hand, finger amputated. 

" Marion F. Tyler, gunshot, left foot. 
Wagoner Charles W. Jones, gunshot, right ear. 
Private Harvey A. Blanchard, chest. 

'* David Brailey. 

'• Nehemiah Brawn, right arm amputed. 

" Amos Burgess, gunshot, left leg. 

" Ferdinand C. Burr, gunshot, left knee. 

** Henry Curtis, gunshot, hips. 

" Charles E. Dodge, both arms. 

" George Emerson, foot. 



458 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Alphonzo Fletcher, hip and hand. 

" John H. Furbish, gunshot, left foot. 

*' Andrew E. Gates, fingers. 

" Henry W. Hutchinson, right leg and shoulder. 

*' George Inman, shell wounds, left shoulder and right ankle. 

" Charles W. Johnson, leg. 

" John Keating, June 16, wrist, deep cut by splinter. 

" John Keating, June 18, gunshot, right foot. 

•' Joseph R. Langley, thigh. 

'* Joseph LeBelle, gunshot, back, severe. 

*' Charles E. Lovell, left thigh. 

" Henry A. Severance, gunshot, right leg. 

" Charles Stade, hand. 

" William W. Tibbetts, left hand. 

Prisoner. 
Private Elias K. Porter, died in Andersonville prison in 1864. 

Company C — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Second Lieut. Edward S. Foster, died July 14. 
Sergeant Milton S. Beckwith. 
Corporal George Kittredge. 

" Arthur P. Hinkley, died Aug. 12. 
Artificer James M. Parker. 
Private Charles W.Allen, died Aug. i. 

Nathan Brazier, died July 13. 

Charles T. Clare. 

James S. Emerson, died June 30. 

Isaiah Garland, died Aug. 16. 

Reuben Gragg, Jr., died Sept. 30. 

Michael Lee. 

John M. Liscomb, died Aug. 4. 

Charles H. Long, died July 15. 

William T. Lunt, died June 23. 

Algernon Morgan. 

Franklin Morrill. 

Joseph W. Mason. 

Lemuel A. Smith, died Aug. r. 

Stillman Smith, died June 20. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 459 

Private Daniel O. Sullivan. 
James Williams. 

Wounded. 

Sergeant Carlton M. Austin, shell wound, head. 

" James M. Smith, color bearer, gunshot, right leg. 

" Hervey L. Hastings, gunshot, right middle finger amputated. 

*' Frank J. Sergeant, thigh. 
Corporal Eben F. Burns, canister shot, right elbow. 
Private William S. Butler, head. 

" Henry A. Carter. 

" John H. Douglass, gunshot, left shoulder. 

" John M. Fogg, gunshot, right leg. 

" George G. Henries, foot. 

'' Walter Jordan, gunshot, right ankle, and grape, shoulder. 

" Henry L. Lunt, side. 

" William L. Miles, chest. 

" Nahum Murch, gunshot, left foot. 

" David Pottle, gunshot, right thigh. 

" John A. Rodick. 

" Asa Smith, gunshot, both thighs, left index and right Httle 
fingers. 

" John A. Smith, hips. 

" William Smith, flesh wound, thigh. 

" Wellington Stratton, gunshot, head. 

Company D — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Second Lieut. Thomas S. Drummond. 
Sergeant Frank S. Robinson. 
Corporal John Jackson, died June 25. 

" Horace W. Burleigh, died July 16. 

'' Josiah E. Hurd. 

'' Sumner Tibbetls, died July 30. 

" Albert C. Elhs. 
Artificer Matthew Waters. 
Private Charles H. Austin. 

" Gustavus W. Bean. 

" David Bishop. 

'* Charles F: Broad. 



460 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private George Brown. 

William C Chamberlain, died July 11. 

Jeremiah Cook, died July 16. 

Horatio B. Downer. 

Adrian R. Drew, died July 16. 

Otis Dunbar, died June 19. 

VVilham E. Dutton. 

Thomas Hatch, died July 13. 

Llewellyn Knowlton, died June 24. 

John S. Libby. 

Charles E. Parkhurst, died July 18. 

Frank S. Powers, died Aug. 8. 

Harvey H. Reed, died June 27. 

Reuben VV. Seavey. 

Frank W. Whittier. 

Wounded. 

First Lieut. Henry E. Sellers, gunshot, right arm. 
Second Lieut. William A. Beckford, arm. 
Sergeant Jonathan C. Lane, leg, slight. 

" William A. Howe, arm. 

" Albert Haskell, neck, slight. 

" Henry M. Howe, both legs. 
Corporal Walter S. Oilman, leg and arm. 

" Oeorge E. Johnson, left elbow. 

'* James F. Robinson, gunshot, right shoulder. 

" Coryden Ireland, side, slight. 
Private John Bo wen, canister shot, foot and knee. 

*•' Oeorge H. Crosby, gunshot, buttock. 

" Thomas Donohue, gunshot, left wrist. 

" William Dixon, gunshot, right instep. 

" HiraiTQ Dulac, gunshot, left lung. 

'^ James W. Dutton, gunshot, right side. 

" Sylvester Eaton, gunshot, hand. 

" Albion K. P. Orant, toes. 

" John W. Hanscom, gunshot, right shin. 

" Edward K. Moulton, gunshot, slight. 

" William Knowlton, Jr., thigh. 

" Aaron Nason, ball and two buck shots, left this^h. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 461 

Private Charles H. Reed, left arm. 

" Charles N. Smith, gunshot through right thigh. 

" Horace A. Smith, leg, slight. 

'' William Wallace, gunshot, left groin. 

Compaiiy E — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

First Lieut. James W. Clark, died July 24. 
First Sergeant Samuel T. Hiscock, died July 5. 
Private William H. Buck. 

" Henry N. Cole. 

'^ Willard G. Delano. 

'' Robert Higgins. 

'' WilUam R. Kennerson, died Aug. 9. 

'' Francis J. Lord, died July 31. 

" Lewis Lord, died June 25. 

'' James R. Orne, died June 20. 

'' Holman Staples, died Aug. 10. 

" Lewis A. Sturtevant, died June 23. 

" George G. Thompson. 

'' Amos A. Withe e. 

" George S. Woodbury, died Aug. 30. 

Wounded. 

Captain Whiting S. Clark, gunshot, right side and left arm. 
Sergeant Albert W. Chapin, gunshot, hip and left foot. 

"■ Dexter Goodwin, buckshot, leg, slight. 

" Thomas O. Eaton, gunshot, right leg. 
Corporal William A. Fenlason, gunshot, right breast and left thumb. ■« 

" Samuel F. Tasker, gunshot, left arm. 

" Charles J. House, gunshot, head and right ear. 
Private Levi L. Curtis, grape-shot, right shin, severe. 

" John Fitzgerald, spent ball, groin. 

" David V. Fogg, gunshot, left side. 

" William W. P. Foster, gunshot, hand. 

" Charles A. Gates, gunshot, small of back. 

" James H. Gerrish, gunshot, shoulder. 

" Joshua Grinnell, shell wound, right foot. 

" Stephen F. Harriman, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Albert Hayes, gunshot, neck. 



462 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Atwood Hillard, gunshot, left chest, three ribs broken. 

" Amos K. Hodgdon, gunshot, thigh. 

" WilHam T. Newbit, gunshot, right forefinger. 

" William G. Page, gunshot, right arm and left thigh. 

" Charles L. Patten, gunshot, forearm. 

" Richard P. Raynes, gunshot, face, slight. 

" Henry W. Stearns, gunshot, left ankle. 

" Cleaves C. Tracy, gunshot, right arm and hips. 

Company F — Ki/kd and Died of Wounds. 

Second Lieut. Gardner H. Ruggles. 
Sergeant Mark T. Emerson, died July 5. 

" James C. Gray. 
Private Eugene Burrill. 

" Augustus H. CorHss, died Au^. i. 

" Ransom C. Dodge, died June 29. 

" John F. Drew, died July 7. 

" Harrison R. Friend, died Aug. 9. 

" Nathan D. Hanson. 

'' Edmund Jefferds, died at City Point, 1864. 

" Charles Larrabee, died July 8. 
Eugene Lord, died June 23. 

" Samuel H. Nason, died July 4. 

" Selden Rogers, died Aug. 6. 

" Josiah Staples. 

Wounded. 

First Lieut. George R. Fernald, gunshot, left foot. 

First Sergeant James A. Dole, gunshot, left wrist, slight. 

Sergeant Stephen G. Waldon, gunshot, right foot. 

" Asa T. Wing, grape-shot, right shoulder. 

" James Goodell, Jr., gunshot, left lower thigh. 
Corporal Alonzo A. Orr, gunshot, left forearm. 

Simeon C. Whitcomb, gunshot, left hand. 

'• Arunah Tracy, gunshot, right arm amputated. 

" Stephen S. Sawyer, gunshot, right shin. 

" James F. McKellar, gunshot, face and right hand. 
Private Corydon C. Blackden, gunshot, leg. 

" Goff M. Blackden, gunshot, right thigh and arm. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 

Private Peleg Bradford, Jr., gunshot, right leg amputated. 

" Lorenzo T. Davis, hip, 

" Orville J. Dorman, gunshot, right chest. 

"• Ephraim K. Drew. 

"' Robert C. Dunaff, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Michael Ford, gunshot, skull fractured. 

" Cyrus Heard, gunshot, right forearm. 

" Isaac M. Lawry, gunshot, right leg. 

" Henry Lord, arm. 

" John F. Montgomery, gunshot, right forearm. 

" Joseph Morse, gunshot, left arm. 

" George J. Nickerson, right thigh. 

Ezra Paitee, arm. 

" Samuel E. Pray, gunshot, abdomen. 

" Daniel P. Raymond, hip. 

" Charles F. Read, right thigh. 

" James J. Reeves, left leg amputated. 

" John L. Robinson, gunshot, left shoulder. 

" Charles E. Sawtelle, right forearm. 

" Dennis Sherburn, body bruise. 

*' John W. Smith. 

" Francis H. Snow, left arm amputated. 

" George F. Stevens, right wrist, slight. 

" Martin V. Tripp, right breast. 

" Thomas Wentworth, gunshot, neck and right shoulder. 

" Altheus O. Wing, left leg amputated. 

Company G — Killed and Died of Woumis. 

Captain Frederic C. Howes. 
Second Lieut. James E. Hall. 
Sergeant George W. Carr, died July lo. 

" Albert Leach. 

" Joel K. Grant. 
Corporal George L. Stover. 
Artificer Lyman Carley. 
Wagoner John B. McCaslin, died June 22. 
Private Simeon E. Allen, died July 31. 
William H. Betts. 

" Jacob I-. Cain, Jr., died Aug. 6 



463 



460 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private George Brown. 

William C Chamberlain, died July 11. 

Jeremiah Cook, died July 16. 

Horatio B. Downer. 

Adrian R. Drew, died July 16. 

Otis Dunbar, died June 19. 

VVilham E. Dutton. 

Thomas Hatch, died July 13. 

Llewellyn Knowlton, died June 24. 

John S. Libby. 

Charles E. Parkhurst, died July 18. 

Frank S. Powers, died Aug. 8. 

Harvey H. Reed, died June 27. 

Reuben W. Seavey. 

Frank W. Whittier. 

Wounded, 

First Lieut. Henry E. Sellers, gunshot, right arm. 
Second Lieut. William A. Beckford, arm. 
Sergeant Jonathan C. Lane, leg, slight. 

" William A. Howe, arm. 

" Albert Haskell, neck, slight. 

" Henry M. Howe, both legs. 
Corporal Walter S. Oilman, leg and arm. 

" George E. Johnson, left elbow. 

" James F. Robinson, gunshot, right shoulder. 

" Coryden Ireland, side, slight. 
Private John Bowen, canister shot, foot and knee. 

" George H. Crosby, gunshot, buttock. 

" Thomas Donohue, gunshot, left wrist. 

" William Dixon, gunshot, right instep. 

" HiraiT; Dulac, gunshot, left lung. 

'^ James W. Dutton, gunshot, right side. 

" Sylvester Eaton, gunshot, hand. 

" Albion K. P. Grant, toes. 

" John W. Hanscom, gunshot, right shin. 

" Edward K. Moulton, gunshot, slight. 

" William Knowlton, Jr., thigh. 

" Aaron Nason, ball and two buck shots, left thigh, 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 46 I 

Private Charles H. Reed, left arm. 

" Charles N. Smith, gunshot through right thigh. 

'' Horace A. Smith, leg, slight. 

'' William Wallace, gunshot, left groin. 

Company E — Killed ajid Died of Wounds. 

First Lieut. James W. Clark, died July 24. 
First Sergeant Samuel T. Hiscock, died July 5. 
Private William H. Buck. 

" Henry N. Cole. 

" Willard G. Delano. 

'' Robert Higgins. 

'' WiUiam R. Kennerson, died Aug. 9. 

'' Francis J. Lord, died July 31. 

" Lewis Lord, died June 25. 

'• James R. Orne, died June 20. 

'' Holman Staples, died Aug. 10. 

" Lewis A. Sturtevant, died June 23. 

" George G. Thompson. 

'' Amos A. Withee. 

" George S. Woodbury, died Aug. 30. 

Wounded. 

Captain Whiting S. Clark, gunshot, right side and left arm. 
Sergeant Albert W. Chapin, gunshot, hip and left foot. 

'' Dexter Goodwin, buckshot, leg, slight. 

" Thomas O. Eaton, gunshot, right leg. 
Corporal William A. Fenlason, gunshot, right breast and left thumb. * 

" Samuel F. Tasker, gunshot, left arm. 

" Charles J. House, gunshot, head and right ear. 
Private Levi L. Curtis, grape-shot, right shin, severe. 

" John Fitzgerald, spent ball, groin. 

" David V. Fogg, gunshot, left side. 

" WilHam W. P. Foster, gunshot, hand. 

" Charles A. Gates, gunshot, small of back. 

" James H. Gerrish, gunshot, shoulder. 

" Joshua Grinnell, shell wound, right foot. 

" Stephen F. Harriman, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Albert Hayes, gunshot, neck. 



462 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Atwood Hillard, gunshot, left chest, three ribs broken. 

" Amos K. Hodgdon, gunshot, thigh. 

" WilUam T. Newbit, gunshot, right forefinger. 

" WilUam G. Page, gunshot, right arm and left thigh. 

" Charles L. Patten, gunshot, forearm. 

" Richard P. Raynes, gunshot, face, slight. 

" Henry W. vStearns, gunshot, left ankle. 

" Cleaves C. Tracy, gunshot, right arm and hips. 

Company F — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Second Lieut. Gardner H. Ruggles. 
Sergeant Mark T. Emerson, died July 5. 

" James C. Gray. 

Private Eugene Burrill. 

" Augustus H. Corliss, died Au^. i. 

" Ransom C. Dodge, died June 29. 

'' John F. Drew, died July 7. 

" Harrison R. Friend, died Aug. 9. 

" Nathan D. Hanson. 

'' Edmund Jefferds, died at City Point, 1864. 

'^ Charles Larrabee, died July 8. 

" Eugene Lord, died June 23. 

" Samuel H. Nason, died July 4. 

" Selden Rogers, died Aug. 6. 

" Josiah Staples. 

Wounded. 

First Lieut. George R. Fernald, gunshot, left foot. 

First Sergeant James A. Dole, gunshot, left wrist, slight. 

Sergeant Stephen G. Waldon, gunshot, right foot. 

" Asa T. Wing, grape-shot, right shoulder. 

" James Goodell, Jr., gunshot, left lower thigh. 
Corporal Alonzo A. Orr, gunshot, left forearm. 

Simeon C. Whitcomb, gunshot, left hand. 

'■ Arunah Tracy, gunshot, right arm amputated. 

" Stephen S. Sawyer, gunshot, right shin. 

" James F. McKellar, gunshot, face and right hand. 
Private Corydon C. Blackden, gunshot, leg. 

" Goff M. Blackden, gunshot, right thigh and arm. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 463 

Private Peleg Bradford, Jr., gunshot, right leg amputated. 

" Lorenzo T. Davis, hip, 

" Orville J. Dorman, gunshot, right chest. 

" Ephraim K. Drew. 

"" Robert C. Dunaff, gunshot, left thigh. 

" Michael Ford, gunshot, skull fractured. 

" Cyrus Heard, gunshot, right forearm. 

" Isaac M. Lavvry, gunshot, right leg. 

" Henry Lord, arm. 

" John F. Montgomery, gunshot, right forearm. 

" , Joseph Morse, gunshot, left arm. 

'V George J. Nickerson, right thigh. 

Ezra Paitee, arm. 

" Samuel E. Pray, gunshot, abdomen. 

" Daniel P. Raymond, hip. 

" Charles F. Read, right thigh. 

" James J. Reeves, left leg amputated. 

" John L. Robinson, gunshot, left shoulder. 

'' Charles E. Sawtelle, right forearm. 

" Dennis Sherburn, body bruise. 

" John W. Smith. 

" Francis H. Snow, left arm amputated. 

" George F. Stevens, right wrist, slight. 

" Martin V. Tripp, right breast. 

" Thomas Wentworth, gunshot, neck and right shoulder. 

" Altheus O. Wing, left leg amputated. 

Company G — Killed and Died of Wounas. 

Captain Frederic C. Howes. 
Second Lieut. James E. Hall. 
Sergeant George W. Carr, died July lo. 

" Albert Leach. 

" Joel K. Grant. 
Corporal George L. Stover. 
Artificer Lyman Carley. 
Wagoner John B. McCaslin, died June 22. 
Private Simeon E. Allen, died July 31. 
WiUiam H. Betts. 

" Jacob I-. Cain, Jr., died Aug. 6 



^64 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private John C. Chandler, died July r. 

" Asa Dore. 

'^ Franklin Ellis. 

WilUam C. Green. 

" Nathan E. Gross. 

*' John F. Haynes, died June 22. 

" William H. Heagan. 

" William H. Jipson, died July 30. 

^' Francis N. Leach, died June 26. 

" Aaron Saunders, died June 26. 

" Addison J. Strout, died Aug. 5. 

" Moses B. Tolman, died July 31. 

" Joseph Uhr. 

Woufided. 

First Lieut. James A. Godfrey, gunshot, finger amputated. 
Sergeant Rufus P. Peaks, gunshot, right foot. 

^' Isaac J. Dunham. 

" Lewis M. Page. 

" Hudson Sawyer, right side. 
Corporal Lorenzo D. Perkins. 

" Thomas E. Dodge, gunshot, right arm. 

" Charles L. Heyvvood. 
Private Daniel Austin, gunshot, right leg, shoulder, side and back. 

'• Asa Batchelder. 

'* Joseph M. Batchelder, left arm amputated, gunshot, right leg. 

" Charles E. Bonsey, gunshot, right foot. 

" Norman S. Brown, right knee and side. 

*' Rufus N. Brown, gunshot, wrist, slight. 

" Nathan E. Burton, gunshot, left shoulder. ' 

*' George P. Clark, gunshot, left middle finger amputated. |' 

" John B. Craig, gunshot, right shoulder. ^^ 

" Greenleaf P. Curtis, gunshot, right elbow, and shell wound in 
back. 

*' Daniel Davis, gunshot, left arm amputated. 

" Edmund N. Davis, gunshot, right thigh. 

" Samuel T. Davis, arm. 

'' Ezra H. Dodge, gunshot, thigh. 

" Everett Dodge, right arm amputated. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 465 

rivate Frank B. Dore, gunshot, right shoulder, arm and chest and left 
leg. 

" James E. Fulton, gunshot, head, shell wound, left side. 

" Floriman D. Furbish. 

" Charles B. Gilley, gunshot, wrist, slight. 

" Howard M. Gilley, side. 

" Isaac B. Goodwin, gunshot, right hip and right thigh. 

" Edwin W. Gould, right hip. 

" Josiah M. Gowdy, gunshot, right testicle and face. 

*' George P. Hooper. 

" John M. Houston. 

" Irving C. Jackson. 

" George VV. Joy, thigh. 

" Seneca E. Keen, gunshot; right hand, finger amputated. 

'^ George W. Kenney, gunshot, left wrist. 

" Edwin L. Ladd, right eye destroyed by exploding shell .. 

" Alonzo Libby, gunshot, right foot. 

" James W. Lunt, thigh. 

" Gilbert L. Lurvey, right arm. 

" John Marsh, gunshot, right leg. 

" Cornelius Meehan, gunshot, right forearm. 

" Ivory Otis, forearm. 

Gilman Pike. 

" Henry H. Sleeper, foot. 

" Stephen Thurston, right thigh. 

" Jesse Tibbetts. 

" Minot Tolman, right arm amputated. 

" Aaron E. Williams, gunshot, arm. 

Company H — Killed and Died of Wounds^ 

irst Lieut. William R. Newenham, died July 9. 
scond Lieut. Allen E. Barry, 
srgeant Alvin C. Casey, 
orporal Samuel H. Bussell. 

" Horatio P. Nash. 

" Benjamin N. Tucker, 
rivate Andrew F. Blyther, died June 20, 

" George W. Burk, died June 30. 
William H. Gates. 



466 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Richard Cannon, died Sept. 21. 

'' Hillman Foss. 

'^ Henry W. Grant. 

'' Jeremiali Gray, died July 5. 

" Warren L. Hall. 

" Samuel Hart. 

" Calvin P. Holway, died June 19. 

" William G. Jackson, died Aug. 26. 

'^ Leonard W. Lee. 

"■ James A. Nash, died July 6. 

'^ John F. Norton, died July 4. 

" Howard M. Stratton, died July 2. 

" George W. Tuesley, died June 30. 

'* Benjamin Weaver. 

" Austin W. Whittier, died Aug. 30. 

Wounded. 

Captain Harrison G. Smith, head and arm. 

Second Lieut John A. Lancy, gunshot, both aims and right leg. 

Sergeant Jonathan Pineo, right leg. 

*' George H. Coffin, gunshot, left leg and right hip. 

" Joseph W. Worster, right shoulder. 
Corporal Charles H. Sawyer, gunshot, left foot. 

" Leverett C. Bridgham, gunshot, right thigh. 

*' Calvin Farnsworth, leg and side, rib broken. 

" Elias Griffin, right thigh. 

" Aaron W. Kelley, left Itg amputated. 
Private Justis Adams, gunshot, right shoulder and left leg. 

" Moses N. H. Baker, gunshot, left thigh and left shoulder. 

" Daniel S. Bunker, gunshot, left shoulder, 

'' Elijah C. Clark, hand. 

" Benjamin Cousins, both shoulders, left arm, neck, hip and 
groin. 

" Everett W\ Davis. 

" William Dobbins, Jr., right knee. 

" Edward J. Donald, gunshot, right elbow. 

" Everett W\ Drisco, gunshot, head, above right ear. 

" Jeremiah Durgan, 3d, gunshot, right elbow. 

" George A. Estes, arm. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 467 

Private George L. Fitzgerald, gunshot, left forearm and forehead. 

*' Benjamin T. Genthner, left thigh. 

" Benjamin M. Gilman, hand and leg. 

" Jason Leighton, gunshot, left foot. 

'^ Rufus S. Sinclair, nose. 

" Converse Thomas, gunshot, wrist. 

"■ Samuel A. Thomas, gunshot, left arm. 

"■ Joseph F. Wakefield, chest. 

" William W. Warren, gunshot, left arm. 

" Nathan B. Watson, left hand. 

" George M. Willey, hip. 

Company I — Killed and .Died of Wounds. 

Captain Andrew J. Jaquith, died July i. 
Second Lieut. Samuel W. Crowell, died June 27. 
Sergeant Adelbert F. Sproul, died June 24. 
Corporal Rufus Gross. 
Private Chailes S. Bunker, died June 25. 

" Benjamin F. Cilley, died Aug. 8. 

" Frank L. Dearborn, died June 26. 

" George W. Doe, died June 19. 

" James G. Dudley. 

" Stillman Guppy, died in Corinth, 1864. 

" James H. Harrison. 

" James A. Hathaway. 

** Job Kelley, died July 11. 
Walter S. Malbon. 

" Joseph H. Header, died July i. 

'* Anson C. Merrill, died July 4. 

" Zina Michael, Jr., died June 27. 

" Thomas Ned do. 

" Ira Scott, died June 19. 
Albert Tucker. 

" Daniel W. Tucker. 

*' Alexander Veancou, died July 11. 

" Elisha Whittaker. 

Wounded. 

First Lieut. Samuel J. Oakes, slight. 

Sergeant Benjamin M. Foss, right arm amputated. 



468 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Sergeant Alphonzo A. Tozier, gunshot, right shoulder. g 

" Albert Guppy, gunshot, right arm amputated. ( 

Corporal Charles W. Southard, gunshot, left ankle. 

" Edward J. Milton, gunshot, right wrist. 

" Chesley L. Metcalf, right arm amputated. 
Wagoner Charles Mercer, right lung. 
Private Alvin S. Archer, gunshot, left leg and arm. 

" Ephraim L. Brawn, gunshot, left arm. 

" John D. Cole, gunshot, arm, sHght. 

" WilHam Doane, shell, right foot. 

" Calvin Douglass, right thigh and left leg. 

'' Edmund M. Erskine, gunshot, left thigh. 

" James A. Farrar, gunshot, neck and left side. 

" Calvin F. Hutchins, chest. 

" James S. Jewett. 

'* Alvin Overlook, gunshot, right forearm. 

" William T. Partridge, gunshot, right arm. 

" Winthrop Shirland, left arm amputated, gunshot, throat and 
leg. 

'' Llewellyn H. Smith, gunshot, left arm and shoulder. 

" Horatio Tibbetts, gunshot, left leg. 

Company K — Killed a fid Died of Wounds, 

Corporal John Jchnson, died July 19. 
Private Israel P. Penner, died June 25. 

'' John Byrne, died March 6, 1865. 

'' Timothy Collins, died July 9. 

" Edward Crowell, died June 30. 

" Sylvanus G. Lincoln, died July 25. 

" Samuel G. McCuUough, died Aug. 30. 

" Frederic W. Patterson, died June 20. 

" James Sears, died Aug. 4. 

"■ Thomas Walton. 

Wounded. 

First Lieut. Hugh F. Porter, right arm amputated. 
Second Lieut. Lucius B. Gibson, foot. 

" " Hiram F. Swett, arm. 

Sergeant Calvin R. Gardner, shght. 

" Enoch L. Hanscomb, left arm. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 469 

Sergeant John T. Ward, side. 
Corporal Edgar M. Johnson, arm. 

" Jacob Henry. 

" Abijah Ayer, body and side. 

" James W. Huntley, gunshot, foot. 
Artificer George W. Howe, left leg. 
Private John W. Bugbee, right side. 

" Elias Brewster, gunshot, right foot. 

" Jesse Brown, left shoulder. 
Alonzo J. W. S. Cook, foot. 

" John E. Corbet. 

" Moses P. Corson, gunshot, left leg. 

" Enoch S. Crosby, arm. 

" John H. Dearborn, both legs. 

" Horace E. Ellis, gunshot, left arm amputated. 

" John Fisher, gunshot, left arm. 

*' Horace W. Getchell, left thigh amputated. 

" Robert H. Gibson, slight. 

" Hiram Farley, gunshot, right eye destroyed. 

" George Hunter, gunshot, right thigh. 

" Barnett N. Jewell, gunshot, head, severe. 

'' David S. Jewell, gunshot, stomach, bowels, shoulder, and ankle. 

" Edward J. Kernin, shoulder. 

" Patrick McCarty, right eye and left knee. 

" Gustavus Malmquist, leg. 

" Ezekiel Merrithew, gunshot, left foot. 

" Joseph Moholland, left leg. 

" James C. Motz, gunshot, right thigh. 

" Raymond P. Motz, gunshot, head and right side. 
Patrick O'Neil, leg. 

" John Robinson, back. 

'' James Rogers, gunshot, left leg. 

" Ephraim W. Steward, leg. 

" Thomas Toohey, gunshot, left forearm. 
John G. Wilder, thigh. 

Company L — Killed and Died of Wounds, 

First Lieut. Horatio N. P. Spooner, died July lo. 
Sergeant Charles C. Morse, died June 19. 



470 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Corporal George C- Cross. 

" Richard B. Creasey. 

Private John H. Booker, died Jan. 9, 1865. 

'' Kingsbury W. Bowley, died July 16. 

" Otis B. Boynton, died July 10. 

'< Daniel G. Foster, died July 7. 

" Edward Ham or. 

" Stephen Harris, 

" WiUiam King. 

" Winslow H. Mclntire. 

'' Willard Merriam, died July 24. 

" Loomis T. Nickerson. 

" Albert J. Osgood. 

" Alfred P. Patterson. 

"■ Henry A. Patterson. 
Charles E. Prescott. 

" William F. Rideout. 

"■ Emery O. Runnels, died July 18. 

" Charles W. Sanderson. 

"■ Omar Shaw, died July 9. 

" Nathan S. Stanley. 

" Isaac E. Stevens. 

"■ Oscar Storer, died July 18. 

" George A. Tibbetts, died July i. 

Wounded. 

First Lieut. Thomas Foster, gunshot, right breast and shoulder. 
Second Lieut. George J. Brewer, gunshot, breast, right arm amputated. 
First Sergeant George E. Dodge, gunshot, right shoulder, slight. 
Sergeant Abiathar J. Knowles, gunshot, right side and left leg. 

'* Aurelius H. Patterson. 
Corporal John H. Brown, leg. 

" William D. Dixon, hip. 

" Robert A. Martin, side and shoulder. 
Private Willard Andrews, left wrist and left side. 

" Alvah Babbidge. 

" William Berry, gunshot, left eye to ear. 

" John F. Boynton, right knee. 

" Charles F. Cowan. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 



471 



Private James S. Crooker, gunshot, right hip. 
" WilHam DiUing. 
" John D. Edes, pick wound, right ankle. 

James W. Hall. 
" David B. Hamor. 

" Moses G. Howard, gunshot, left hand and right leg. 
" Thornton McD. Howard, right leg amputated, left leg and 

skull fractured, gunshot, left hand, buckshot, neck. 
" William Judkins, body. 
" Russell L, Knight, gunshot, skull. 
" Frank G. Lancaster, gunshot, shoulder. 
" Rufus E. Patterson, gunshot, left hand, knee, foot and right 

arm. 
" Alfred K. Paul, left wrist. 
" John E. Potter, gunshot, left side, slight. 
" Nathan N. Pratt, gunshot, right foot. 
" James H. Stinson. 

" Horace Tibbetts, gunshot, righc hand, index finger amputated. 
" Charles Wiley, gunshot, head. 

Company M — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Sergeant Sewall D. Ramsdell. 

'* Edward E. Jennison, died June 25. 
Corporal John C. Grover, died July 16. 

" Andrew J. Knowles, died July 18. 
Private Silas S. Bennett. 

'' Thomas J. Bickmore. 

" Levi Glidden. 

" Nathan Higgins, Jr., died Oct. i. 

" Edwin G. Minot, died Sept. 17. 
John A. Poor, died 1864. 

" Edwin Stanton. 

Wounded. 

First Lieut. Cyrus K. Bridges, shell wound, right forearm. 
Second Lieut. Albert P. Eastman, gunshot, neck and hand. 
First Sergeant Daniel W. Pettengill, gunshot, lower jaw and leg. 
Sergeant Dallas Knowlton, shell, left foot, four toes amputated. 
Private Erastus Adams, gunshot, left ankle and frontal bone. 



472 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Private Josiah P. Bradbury, gunshot, right knee. 
William F. Butters, shell wound, back. 
Charles Green, gunshot, left hand. 

Thomas S. Henderson, gunshot, right thigh and left knee. 
Phineas P. Jones. 

Philip C. Keith, gunshot, left foot. 
Franknn R. Knovvlton. 
Thomas Leighton, thigh. 
George W. Loyd, thigh. 

Alexander H. Haddocks, gunshot, left foot, two toes amputated 
John E. Mitchell, gunshot, left hand. 
Frederick Ordway, gunshot, left leg. 
Luther F. Rolf, gunshot, left leg, thigh amputated June 30 

1866. 
Charles F. Runnels. 
Hosea H. Sherburn, arm. 
Charles M. Staples, shoulder. 
Edwin E. White, gunshot, right forearm and shoulder. 









RECAPITULATION. 




Killed and 




died 


Wounded 


of wound?. 




Field and staff . . . . i 


3 


Company A 








14 


34 


B 








30 


31 


C 








22 


20 


n 








27 


26 


E 








15 


24 


F 








15 


58 


G 








24 


50 


H 








24 


32 


I 








• 23 


22 


K 








10 


40 


L 








26 


30 


M 








II 


22 



Prisoners. 



Totals 



242 



,72 



Total 



615 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 473 

JERUSALEM PLANK ROAD, JUNE 22, 1864. 

Company A — Wounded. 

Private Philander W. Rowell, gunshot, left foot. 
" Albert Spearen, gunshot, ankle. 
'' George W. Tucker, gunshot, left hand, finger amputated. 

Prisone7-s. 

Private Noah Cross, died in Anderson ville, Aug. 9. 
*' Arthur F. Howard, exchanged, Feb. 6. 1865. 

Company B — Wounded. 
Private Richard McGrath. 

" John A. Whittier, gunshot, left lower leg. 

Prisoner. 
Private Ezra R. Reed, enlisted into rebel army. 

Company C — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private Alanson Bennett, also prisoner, died Aug. 23. 

Wounded. 
Private Oscar Kimball. 

Prisoners. 

Corporal John G. Remick, exchanged Nov. 22. 
Private Alanson Bennett (see above) . 

*' Sewall A. Bunker, died Aug. 15. 

" James M. Stratton, died Aug. 20. 

Company D — Prisoners. 

Private Charles A. Peavey, paroled Jan. 20, 1865. 
" Hosea B. Perkins, paroled Jan. 20, 1865. 

Company E — Wounded. 
Sergeant George W. Labree, gunshot, right thigh and right leg. 

Prisoners. 

Private Joseph S. Church, died in Andersonville, 1864. 
" William S. Randlett, exchanged Nov. 22. 



474 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Co7npany F — Wounded. 
Private Joseph Appleton, shell wound, left arm. 

Company G — Wounded. 
Private Charles B. Gilley, gunshot, left arm. 

Prisoners. 

Corporal John Ames, color bearer, exchanged Feb. 27, 1865. 

" Charles A. Jackson, exchanged Nov. 25. 
Private Eben W. Johnson, exchanged Nov. 25. 

•' Uriah B. Leach, exchanged Nov. 25. 

Company K — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Sergeant Robert Smith, left in hands of the enemy. 

Woicnded. 
Private John Barrell, thumb, 

" Archibald McKenzie, left thumb. 

Company L — Wounded. 

First Sergeant George E. Dodge, shell wound, right leg, three buck 
shot in right side, contusion of elbow. 

Prisoners. 

Sergeant Joseph A. Burlingame, paroled. 
Private Marcus M. Alley, paroled. 

Company M — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Private Stephen N. Barker, also prisoner, died in prison, Sept. 15. 
" Edward P. Clary, died July 11, at Portsmouth Grove, R. I. 

Wounded. 

Sergeant Byron W. Murphy, gunshot, head. 
Private Philonas K. Martin 
'' Charles H. Philbrick. 

PiHsoner.s. 

Artificer Samuel R. Cromwell, died Jan. 7, 1865. 
Private Stephen N. Barker (see above). 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 



475 



Private Thomas B. Drysdale, died Aug. 13. 
" Franklin Ware, exchanged. 



RECAPITULATION. 



Compan) 


r A 

B 




C 




D 




E 




F 




G 




K 




L 




M 



Killed and 








died 


Wounded. 


Prisoners. 


Total. 


of wounds. 








- 


3 


2 


5 


- 


2 


I 


3 


I 


I 


4 


6 


- 


- 


2 


2 


- 


I 


2 


3 


- 


I 


- 


I 


- 


I 


4 


5 


I 


2 


- 


3 


- 


I 


2 


3 


2 


3 


4 


9 



Totals .... 4 15 21 

MINE EXPLOSION, JULY 30, 1 864. 

Company B — Wounded. 
Private Charles W. Jones, gunshot, left hand, right leg and head. 

RECAPITUL.A.T10N. 



40 



Killed and 

died Wounded, 

of wounds. 



Prisoners. 



Total. 



Company B .... - i 

Total .... - I 

DEEP BOTTOM, AU(;. 16-19, 1864. 
FIELD AND STAFF. 

Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Colonel Daniel Chaplin, died .'\ug. 20. 

Conipaiiy D — J founded. 
Private Archibald McDougald, gunshot, left arm and hand. 



476 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Company E — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private David O. Pollard. 

Wounded. 

Sergeant Dexter Goodwin, shell wound, left hand, sHght. 
Private George E. Ball, shell wound, right hip, severe. 
Sullivan Ellis, gunshot, right leg. 



Company F 

Corporal John H. Kelley, hand. 

" Stephen S. Sawyer, arm. 

" Samuel E. Pray, ankle. 
Private John Heard, shoulder. 



Wounded. 



Field and staff 
Company D 
E 
F 

Totals 



RECAPITULATION. 










Killed and 










died of 


W 


ounded. 


Prisoners. 


Total. 


wounds. 










I 




- 


- 


I 


. 




I 


- 


I 


I 




3 


- 


4 


. 




4 


- 


4 



8 



THE CHIMNEYS, FRONT OF FORT HELL, SEPT. 9, 1 864. 

Company A — Prisoner's. 
Corporal Randall M. Davis, exchanged. 

Co77ipany G — Prisoners. 

Private Asa Batchelder, exchanged March 19, 1865. 

" James A. Smith, died March 2, 1865, at Richmond, in prison. 

Company H — Prisoners. 
Corporal Warren T. Small, died Dec. 16. 

Compafiy K — Prisoners. 
Sergeant Edward Kilby, exchanged Feb. 10, 1865. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 



477 



Company M — Prisoners. 
Wagoner Joel A. Dorr, exchanged. 



RECAPITULATION. 



Company 


A 


<( 


G 


u 


H 


<( 


K 


<( 


M 



Killed and 
died of "Wounded, 
wounds. 



Prisoners. 



Total. 

I 
2 
I 
I 
I 



Totals 



SQUIRREL LEVEL ROAD, OCT. 2, 1 864. 

Company C — Killed and Died of Wounds . 
Private James H. Grover. 

Company D — Killed and Died of Woufids, 
Private Rodolphus A. Tufts. 

Wounded. 
Private John Potter, head, slight. 

Prisoner. 
Private Charles A. Jones, exchanged Oct. 8. 

Company F — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Private Owen D. Bradford. 

'* Charles H. Maddocks, died Oct. 27. 

Wotmded. 

Corporal Fred A. Chamberlain, shell wound, head, slight. 
Private Amos E. Hardy, shell wound, right arm ampututed. 



478 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 





RECAPITULATION. 






Killed and 






died 


Wounded 




of wounds. 




Company C 


I 


- 


D 


I 


I 


F 


2 


2 



Prisoners. Total. 



Totals 



BOYDTON PLANK ROAD, CCT. 27, 1864. 

Company A — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Private Rodger Connoley, wound, severe, also prisoner ; died, date 
unknown. 

Wounded. 

First Lieut. Warren A. Huntress, gunshot, head, slight. 
Sergeant Thomas B. Gifford, gunshot, leg, also prisoner, exchanged. 
" Joseph W. Knights, gunshot, left hand, two fingers amputated. 

Prisoners. 

Sergeant Thomas B. Gifford (see above). 
Private Rodger Connoley (see above). 

Company B — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Private Leander Vickery. 

Wounded. 

Sergeant Freeman D. Gove, gunshot, scrotum, slight. 
Private William H. Welch, foot, slight. 

Company C — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private Luther Kingman, died Nov. i8. 

Wounded. 

Second Lieut. Carlton M. Austin, shoulder. 
Sergeant Frank J. Sargent, side. 

Private Sewall F. Haskell, gunshot and gravel, left eye destroyed. 
'■ Owen O'Neil, also prisoner, gunshot, leg. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 



479 



^ Prisoner. 

Private Owen O'Neil (see preceding page). 

Conpany D — Wounded. 

Artificer Amaziah Billings, also prisoner, gunshot, right lower leg. 
Private Benjamin W. Hinton, gunshot, left leg. 

Prisoners. 

Artificer Amaziah Billings, paroled March i, 1865 (see above). 
Private Hiram G. Bolton, paroled March 25, 1865. 

Co7npany E — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Private Peter Pelkie, severely wounded and prisoner, date of death 
unknown. 

Wounded. 

Second Lieut. P>ank A. Clark, gunshot, left arm. 
Private Benjamin W. Rollins, gunshot, left middle finger amputated. 
" Osborn Weeman, shell wound, neck, slight. 

Prisoner. 
Private Peter Pelkie (see above). 

Company F — Wounded. 
Private Sanford Annis, gunshot, left chest and shoulder. 

Prisoner. 
Private Oliver P. Hodgdon, exchanged Feb. 25, 1865. 



Covipa)>y G — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Lorenzo D. Pe 
Private Freeman S. Hancock. 



First Sergeant Lorenzo D. Perkins 



Cofnpany H — J founded. 

Second Lieut. Ira M. Bowers, gunshot, right shoulder. 
Private George Bush, gunshot, slight. 



480 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Benjamin T. Genthner, gunshot, right ankle. 
" Converse Thomas, gunshot, left hand. 

Company I — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private Lorenzo Warren, also piisoner, died Nov. i. 

Wounded. 

Private Francis M. Archer, also prisoner, gunshot, leg. 
" George E. Tibbetts, gunshot, right hand. 

Prisoners. 

Private Francis M. Archer (see above), paroled Feb. 5, 1865. 
" Lorenzo Warren (see above). 

Company K — Wounded. 

Sergeant David Wilbur, also prisoner, right leg amputated. 
Private Ezra Dean, also prisoner, gunshot, left leg. 

Pi is oners. 

Sergeant David Wilbur (see above), exchanged Feb. 10, 1865. 
Private Ezra Dean (see above), exchanged. 

Company L — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Corporal George C. Knowle^. 
" Virgil D. Bowley. 

Company M — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private Elias Chick, died Nov. 20. 

Wounded. 

Private Charles Conery, left foot, four toes amputated. 

" Josiah M. Whittier, also prisoner, gunshot, right thigh. 

Prisoner. 
Private Josiah M. Whittier (see above), exchanged February, 1865. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 



481 



RECAPITULATION. 











Killed and 








died 


Wounded. 


Prisoners. 


Total. 


of wounds. 








Company A .... i 


3 


2 


6 


B 








I 


2 


- 


3 


'' C 








I 


4 


1 


6 


" D 








- 


2 


2 


4 


'^ E 








I 


3 


I 


5 


'V F 








- 


I 


I 


2 


'' G 








2 


- 


- 


2 


H 








- 


4 


- 


4 


1 








I 


2 


2 


5 


" K 








- 


2 


2 


4 


L 








. 2 


- 


- 


2 


" M 








' 


2 


I 


4 


Totals . 








10 


25 


12 


47 



WELDON RAID, DEC. 6-12, 1 864. 

Company F — Prisoner. 
First Sergeant Luther K. Patten, paroled Jan. 8, 1865. 

Cof?ipa?iy H — Prisoner. 
Sergeant Augustus P. Nash, exchanged. 

RECAPITULATION. 



Company F 
H 



Killed and 






died 


Wounded. 


Prisoners. 


wound?. 










I 



Total. 



Totals .... - - 2 

SIEGE OF PETERSBURG, JUNE 23, 1864, TO MARCH 29, 1865. 

Company A — Wounded. 

Corporal Thomas H . Stanvvood, date unknown, gunshot, leg. 
Private Joseph C. Dunn, June 27, Petersburg lines, gunshot. 



482 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Private Andrew Hooper, Sept. 30, Fort Hell, gunshot, left thigh. 
" John R. Morrill, September, spent ball, left foot, Fort Hell. 
" Hiram F. Savage, Aug. 25, Fort Hell, gunshot, left leg 

amputated. 
" Francis A. Sullivan, Oct. 7, Fort Hell, gunshot. 

Company B — Wounded. 

Private George M. Furbish, July, Petersburg, shell wound, right hand 
*' James McKeen, date and place unknown, gunshot, left fore- 
arm. 

Compafiy C — KUled and Died of Wounds. 
Private Daniel Jellison, Oct. 24, Fort Hell, shell, died Oct. 30. 

Wounded. 

Private Willard O. Fogg, Oct. 18, Fort Hell, gunshot, left side. 

" William H. Stanley, Jan. 2, 1865, in camp, gunshot, right leg. 

Company JJ — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private Emery W. Hatch, Sept. 10, Fort Hell. 

Wounded. 

Corporal Calvin Kirk, Nov. 4, Fort Hell, gunshot, left arm, severe. 
" Frank R. Leach, Sept. 10, Fort Hell, right arm amputated. 

Coffipany E — Killed and Died of' Wounds. 
Private James A. Barnes, Oct. 13, Fort Hell, died Nov. 27. 

Wounded. 

Private Elisha H. Adams, Oct. 17, Fort Hell, gunshot, left shoulder. 
*' Elbridge G. Frost, Sept. 27, Fort Hell picket, gunshot, right 

arm. 
" Henry H. Lufkin, October, Fort Hell picket, shell, slight. 
" Osborn Weeman, Nov. 27, rear of Fort Hell, gunshot, arm. 



j 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 483 

Company F — ]Vou7ided. 
Private Charles H. Fitzgerald, date and place unknown, gunshot, knee. 

Company G — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private James W. Lunt, Sept. 28, Fort Hell picket. 

Company H — Wounded. 

Private John Q. A. Foss, Oct. 20, Fort Hell, spent ball, elbow. 

Charles T. Haskell, October, Fort Hell, spent ball, pi. of 
stomach. 

Compa?iy I — Wounded. 
Private Joel F. Brown, June 24, near Petersburg, gunshot, hand. 

Company K — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Private John Cambridge, Nov. 28, Fort Hell picket. 

" Thomas H. Woodman, Sept. 24, Fort Hell picket. 

Wounded. 

First Sergeant Fred O. Talbot, November, Fort Hell, spent ball, 

right breast. 
Private John E. Corbet, September, P'ort Hell, gunshot, shoulder. 

Company L — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Corporal David A. Chase, Sept. 18, F'ort Hell, died Sept 21. 
Private Isaac Adams, Sept. 24, Fort Hell, died Sept. 28. 

Wounded. 

Private John Bigelow, Sept. 29, Fort Hell picket, gunshot, left heel. 
Heman Case, Aug. 28, P'ort Hell picket, shell wound, head. 
-' John V. Maxfield, Sept. 24, Fort Hell picket, gunshot, left 
shoulder. 

Company M — Wounded. 

Private Alfred Hoyt, Aug. 20, Fort Hell. 



484 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Con 







RECAPITULATION. 








Killed and 








Died 


Wounded. 


Prisoners. 


TotaL 


of Wounds. 








npany A 






- 


6 


- 


6 


B . 






- 


2 


- 


2 


C . 






I 


2 


- 


3 


D 






I 


2 


- 


3 


E 






I 


4 


- 


5 


F 






- 


1 


— 




G 






I 


— 


— 


I 


H 






- 


2 


- 


2 


I 






. 


I 


— 


I 


K 






2 


2 


— 


4 


L 






2 


3 


- 


5 


M 






. 


I 


- 


I 
















Totals 


. 


. 


8 


26 


_ 


^4. 



ADVANCE ON PETERSBURG LINES, AIARCH 25, 1865. 

Company A — Wounded, 

Private John Miller, gunshot, arm. 
" James Warren, gunshot, arm. 

Company B — Wounded. 
Private Joseph Jordan, gunshot, hand. 

■ Company C — Wounded. 
Private Jeremiah Harrington, gunshot, temple. 

Co7npany D — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Private James Morrill. 

Wounded. 

Corporal Charles H. Calef, gunshot, head, slight. 

Private Robert A. Webster, gunshot, left cheek and left arm. 



Prisoner. 
Private Henry H. Frost, paroled March 29. 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. . 485 

Coffipany E — Wounded. 
Private John Saul, gunshot, left hip. 

Company F — Killed and Died of Wounds, 

Private Loomis J. Felker. 

Wounded. 

Corporal Orrin Houston, gunshot, left breast. 
Private Martin V. Tripp. 

Company G — Wounded. 
Private Wilbur H. Eldridge, right leg. 

Compa?iy H — Killed and Died of Wouuds. 
Private Newell Davis, died in August at home. 

Woimded. 
Private Israel Sweet, right arm. 

Cojnpany I — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Capt. Samuel J. Oakes. 

Private Moses Davis, also prisoner, died April i. 

Wounded. 
Sergeant Newton E. Bonney, arm. 

Prisoners. 

Private Moses Davis (see above). 

" James Davis, paroled March 29. 
" Erastus F. Emery, paroled March 29. 
" William Harlow, Jr., paroled March 29. 
'' Samuel P. Soule, paroled March 29. 
'' Augustus Young, paroled March 29. 

Company L — Wounded. 
Private Charles R. Brown, hip. 
" Charles F. Cowan, wrist. 

Company AT — Wounded. 
Private Wilham F. Butters, right leg. 



486 



THE FIKST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



RECAPITULATION. 

Killed and 
died of wounds 



Com pan} 


^ A 


<( 


B 


t' 


C 


ii 


D 


a 


E 


'<. 


F 


't 


G 


■' 


H 


(<, 


I 


i( 


L 


(' 


M 



Wounded. 
2 
I 
I 
2 

2 

I 
I 
I 
2 

I 



' Totals 

hatcher's run, MARCH 3 1, 1 865. 

Compa7iy A — Killed and Died of Wounds. 
Private John M. Steward. 

Company E — IVottnded. 
Private Elijah Dow, shell wound, cheek. 
'' Edward B. West, gunshot, left foot. 

Company H — Wounded. 
Private Richard W. Willey, shell wound, wrist. 

Cojnpany L — Wounded. 
Private Manley S. Tyler, concussion, shell. 



Prisoners. 



Total. 
2 
I 
I 

4 

I 

3 
I 

2 

9 
2 



27 



Company A 
E 
H 
L 

Totals 



RECAPITULATION. 

Killed and 

died 
of wounds. 



Wounded. 



Prisoners. 



Totj 



CASUALTIES OF BATTLE. 487 

DEATONSVILLE AND SAILORS CREEK, APRIL 6, 1 865. 

Company A — Wounded. 
Corporal William Harmon, gunshot. 

" Frederic H. Tucker, bruise from shell. 

" William W. Scott, gunshot, left arm amputated. 
Private Benjamin G. Grover, gunshot, right hand. 

Company B — Wounded. 
Captain Frederic C. Low, gunshot, shoulder. 
Private Albert Clements, gunshot, hand. 

" Francis McKenna, shoulder. 

" William H. Welch, shoulder. 

Company C — Wounded. 
Private John L. Emery, shell wound, arm. 

'' James F. Osgood, shell wound, right foot. 

'^ Calvin J. Sargent, shell wound, right arm amputated. 

Company D — Wounded. 
Private Stephen M. Bickford, shell wound, face. 

Company E — Killed and Died of Wowids. 
Private Henry A. Evans, died xApril ii. 

Wounded. 
Sergeant Alpheus Rowell, shell wound, face. 
Corporal David W. Adams, gunshot, left forearm. 
Private David V. Fogg, shell wound, foot. 

" Francis O. Nichols, shell wound, right heel. 

Company F — Wounded. 
First Lieut. John N. Batchelder, gunshot, right arm. 
Sergeant James E. W^entworth, shell wound, right hip. 
Private Herbert E. Arey, gunshot, neck and face. 

" David A. Legrow, gunshot, left thigh from hip to knee. 

Coinpaiy G — Wounded. 
Private John B. Craig, spent ball. 

" Charles Hendrickson, gunshot, slight. 



488 



THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



Company H — Wounded. 
Private James H. Brazzell, left knee. 
" Arthur D. Bumps, leg. 
" Timothy Cunningham, gunshot, left ankle. 
" Rufus S. Sinclair, left shoulder. 

Company I — Wounded. 
Corporal Edmund C. Parsons. 
Private George B. McKechnie, hand. 
" Michael Ryan, breast. 

Company K — Killed and Died of Wounds. 

Private Alonzo J. W. S. Cook. 

Wounded. 

Private John P. Sprague, gunshot, left arm. 

Company M — Killed and Died of Wounds, 

Private Ferdinand Palmer. 

Wounded. 

Second Lieut. Arthur P. Budge, right arm. 

Private Oliver W. Bates, shell wound, right leg amputated. 

" James W. Bryant. 

" John Noyes, gunshot, head. 

" Charles M. Staples, gunshot, groin. 



Company 


A 




B 




C 




D 




E 




F 




G 




H 




I 




K 




M 



Totals 



RECAPITULATION. 

Killed and 

died 
of wounds. 



Wounded. 

4 
4 
3 

I -: 

4 
4 

2 

4 
3 
I 

5 
35 



Prisoners. 



Total. 

4 
4 

3 

5 
4 

2 

4 
3 

2 

6 

38 



RECAPITULATION. 



489 



FARMVn.LE, APRIL 7, 1 865. 

Company G — Wounded. 
Corporal John Murphy, gunshot, left wrist. 

Company H — Wounded. 
Private Robert Goodwin. 



Company G 
H 

Totals 



ECAPITULATION. 








Killed and 








died 


Wounded. 


Prisoners. 


Total. 


of wounds. 








. 


I 


- 


I 


- 


I 


— 


I 



RECAPITULATION. 









Killed and 








Battle. 


Date. 




died of 
wounds. 


Wounded. 


Prisoners. 


Total. 


Spottsylvania, 


May 19, 


1864, 


155 


375 


2 


532 


Milford Station, 


May 21, 


1864, 


I 




2 


3 


North Anna, 


May 23-26 


1864, 


2 


6 


- 


8 


Totopotomoy, 


May 28-31, 


1864, 


3 


10 


3 


16 


Cold Harbor, 


June 2-13, 


1864, 


I 


27 


7 


35 


Petersburg, 


June 16-18, 


1864, 


242 


372 


I 


615 


Jerusalem Plank Road, 


June 22, 


1864, 


4 


15 


21 


40 


Mine Explosion, 


July 30, 


1864, 


- 


I 


- 


I 


Deep Bottom, 


Aug. 16-19 


1864, 


2 


8 


- 


10 


The Chimneys, 


Sept. 9, 


1864, 


- 


- 


6 


6 


Squirrel Level Road, 


Oct. 2, 


1864, 


4 


3 


I 


8 


Boydton Road, 


Oct. 27, 


1864, 


10 


25 


12 


47 


Weldon Raid, 


Dec. 7-13, 


1864, 


- 


- 


2 


2 


Siege of Petersburg, 


June, 1 864 to April, 


1865, 8 


26 


- 


34 


Advance on Petersburg Lines 


, March 25, 


1865, 


5 


^5 


7 


27 


Platcher's Run, 


March 31, 


1865, 


I 


3 


- 


4 


Deatonsville and Sailors Creek, April 6, 


1865, 


3 


Z^ 


- 


l^ 


Farmville, 


April 7, 


1865, 


- 


2 


- 


2 



Totals, 



441 



04 



1,428 



490 THE FIRST MAINE HFAVY ARTILLERY 



ACCIDENTS. 

Injuries to men in the army do not all occur in battle, neither are 
all deaths the result of battle and disease. Accidents sometimes play 
quite an important part in disabling men in the service. The rough 
character of army life tends to accidents, but, of course, all are not 
recorded. During the progress of this compilation the following 
accidents have been noted, and their recital may not be the most 
uninteresting part of our history : — 

At Fort Sumner, Michael Boucher, of Company A, fell in a fit across 
a fire and was badly burned about the arms, which laid him up for a 
long time. 

In a letter from Colonel Chaplin, dated Sept. lo, 1862, on file 
in the Adjutant-General's ofifice at Augusta, he mentions the fact that 
five men of the regiment had been badly cut with axes during the few 
days the regiment had then been felling trees, and added that he 
believed the work in which the men were then engaged was more 
dangerous than service at the front. 

Sometime during the fall of 1862, Henry S. Hall had his leg broken 
while felling trees, injuring him so badly that he never returned to the 
regiment, but was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps. 

On June 26, 1864, in front of Petersburg, William W. Lander, of 
Company M, was badly injured on ihe head and right side by a falling 
tree. 

Benjamin Varnum, of Company C, was also injured by a falling tree, 
but the date does not appear. 

Josiah M. Jordan, of Company I, >Aas quite badly injured by a falling 
tree in the fall of 1862. 

Orrin A. Sidelinker, of Company E, in the summer of 1863, cut his 
foot with a broadaxe while hewing timber, which required several 
stitches to close the wound. 

William H. Kent, of Company B, cut off two fingers with a hatchet 
while splitting kindling, on the morning of May 16, 1864. 

Charles E. Dunn, of Company M, cut off one of his toes while chop- 
ping, on July 21, 1864. 

Sergeant Joseph M. Currier, of Company G, met with a peculiar 
accident as the company was coming in from drill on the double quick 
at Fort Sumner. His foot striking some obstruction, he stumbled, but 



ACCIDENTS. 491 

kept his feet for several paces, and in trying to preserve his balance he 
threw his hand back, striking the end of his bayonet scabbard, reversing 
it. The bayonet slipped from the scabbard, striking the ground point 
upward, upon which he fell, the point piercing his knee, inflicting a 
painful, though not dangerous wound. 

While some of our men were engaged in digging a well in front of 
Petersburg, in the summer of 1864, as Charles O. Smith, of Company 
F, was being lowered down, the rope broke, precipitating him to the 
bottom, giving him a bad shaking up and several bruises. 

On Aug. 21, 1863, while celebrating the first anniversary of our 
muster into United States service, during the mule race, Charles Eaton, 
of Company E, was thrown from a mule, receiving a sprained ankle 
which laid him up for several weeks. 

In the fall of 1862, John Gerald, of Company B, was reported in 
hospital under treatment for a sprained ankle. 

During the engagement of our brigade on March 25, 1865, Capt. 
Hudson Sawyer, then on Gen. De Trobriand's staff, was riding over the 
field with orders to some of the regiments. His horse stumbled as he 
leaped a line of breastwork, both being thiown to the ground. The 
Captain, although he would hardly own that he was hurt at the time, 
suffered for months from the effects of the fall. 

In the spring of 1864, while unloading rations at Fcrt Sumner, a 
barrel of pork fell from the wagon, striking Axel Woodbury, of Com- 
pany M, knocking him down and severely injuring his hip, from the 
effects of which he never fully recovered. 

In the mix-up at the wagon train, on May 19, 1864, Nehemiah Little- 
field, of Company K, was run over by a wagon. He was taken to the 
hospital, where he remained until discharged about a year later. 

On the night of April 23, 1865, Sergt. Augustus P. Nash, of Com- 
pany H, and John Hall, of Company F, were drowned in the collision 
of the steamers " Massachusetts " and '' Black Diamond." 

Sergt-Major Nathan M. Mills, who had lost an arm at Petersburg, 
was drowned in the Penobscot River, between Old Town and Bradley, 
by the upsetting of a boat. 

On the night of June 16, 1864, in front of Petersburg, while working 
in the darkness building breastworks, a pick in the hands of one of the 
men was driven through the heel of John D. Edes, of Company L. 
This was a very bad wound, and used him up for further field service. 

Corporal Robert Grindle, of Company C, had his leg very badly in- 



492 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

jured by a heavy pine log rolling back on him while building breastworks 
at Cold Harbor. He was never able to return to the company. 

Robert L. Willey, of Company H, while on furlough at Cherryfield, 
on April lo, 1865, in firing a salute in honor of Lee's surrender, had 
his right arm torn off the premature discharge of a cannon. 

While on the VVeldon raid, in December, 1864, Josiah Davis, of 
Company M, slipped and fell from a sleety log, receiving injuries which 
kept him in hospital for four months. 

James B. Erskine, of Company B, received an injury to his ankle, 
for which he was discharged in May, 1863. 

In January, 1864, while on picket near Fort Sumner, Russell Trundy, 
of Company B, was hit in the ankle by a piece of shell fired from the 
fort in target practice. He received his discharge a few weeks later. 

While on guard at our Barracks on Seventh Street in Washington, in 
the spring of 1864, James F. Osgood, of Company C, was wounded in 
the leg by a minie' ball from the gun of another of the guard who 
slipped and fell on the icy sidewalk, striking the hammer of his gun on 
the bricks with sufihcient force to explode it. 

Within a few days of the time of Osgood's injury, Thomas Matthews, 
of Company C, had come off guard, and he with the rest of the squad 
were discharging their pieces into a gravel bank. Some of the gravel 
flew and struck Matthews in the eyes, injuring them to such an extent 
that he was discharged a few months later. Through the carelessness 
of the officers his name was never reported on the company roll He 
later applied for a United States pension, but his case was rejected as 
his name could not be found. He tried for a state pension with simi- 
lar results. In the meantime he had become entirely blind and finally 
died without getting any assistance from his government or state. In 
compiling for this history the facts were discovered on a monthly re- 
turn, but it was too late. He had gone where a pension would be of 
no use. 

As in the case of Matthews the name of George P. Potter, of C-ompany 
K, who was mortally wounded May 19, 1864, was never reported on 
the roll of that company, but the facts were obtained from a monthly 
return. We have never heard anything from this latter case and do 
not know whether or not his widow was able to obtain a pension. 

In November, 1864, a member of Company D, who had been on 
picket through a rain storm, was at work cleaning his gun. He found 
that some mud had got into the gun and seemed to stick about midway 



ACCIDENTS. 



493 



of the barrel, which he found difficult to remove. Abel Brooks, of that 
company, took the gun, remarking that he could remove the mud. 
Holding the gun over his head he fired, but that gun did no more ser- 
vice, neither did Brooks for several days or until a long scalp wound, 
made by a sliver of steel from the shattered gun, had time to heal. 
Fortunately no one else was hit by the flying fragments. 

The following may not be strictly classed as an accident, but it shows 
one of the freaks to which minie balls are liable. When Andrew 
Hooper, of Company A, was wounded through the thigh in Fort Hell 
on Sept. 30, 1864, he was hanging out his wash, his clothes pole being 
several feet below the top of the fort and where everybody felt perfectly 
safe from the fire of small-arms. It was a mystery how Hooper could 
get hit under existing conditions until someone discovered the mark 
of the ball as it struck the top of the embankment. It had hit a sand 
bag, and in passing, the course of the ball had been turned downward. 



PART IV. 



A REGIMENT OF RECRUITS. 



CHAP'J^ER XIX. 

A REGIMENT OF (iREEN KECRlTrS. 

Twelve companies, 150 men each, 1,800 men, 65 commissioned 
officers. Take one company. Here they are. Fall in: Tallest on 
right, 6 feet 2, shortest on left, 5 feet 2, graded down, no two heads, 
faces, bodies, or limbs alike, ages 16 years to 45. They stand as 
unlike as trees in the forest. They walk 150 different gaits. Some 
are quick and snappy, others slow and dr.iggy, every variation 
betw^een. Their mental make-up is as different as the homes and 
occupations from which they have come. Here are farmers and 
their boys, carpenters, shipbuilders, blacksmiths, lumbermen, ri\er 
drivers, masons, tailors, barbers, clerks, cooks, lavmdry men, engi- 
neers, printers, shoemakers, boat builders, boiler makers, watch- 
makers, gunsmiths, harness makers, carriage builders, and school- 
masters, and several boys who have done no work, who have never 
even learned to care for their own things, but have been followed by 
mothers and sisters to keep them in order at home. They must 
now be made straight, setting up in military parlance, get their 
heads up, bodies straight, fitted to uniforms, shoes, and hats, and 
taught to walk and run alike, to move together as one unit — a com- 
pany in the regiment. They must learn obedience and promptness. 

How long will it take to teach some of these men and boys to 
get up quickly at reveille and to be punctual at every call of the 
bugle? Then how to camp, to bivouac, to endure a hard, heavy 
march in fair or stormy days or nights, and to conserve their powers 
and preserve health ? How to approach an enemy or prevent his 
approach ? How to use arms on march, in line of battle, or on skir- 
mish or picket line, how^ to shoot and avoid getting shot ? How^ to 
carry, cook, and conserve their food and ammunition, to keep their 
arms and themselves always ready for action ? All these things they 
must learn. All the trades they brought with them will be wanted, 
for soldiers must do many things besides marching, camping, and 
fighting. They must build and destroy buildings, forts, magazines, 
bridges, roads, railroads, boats, dams, and ririe pits. All the trades 



498 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

of civil life will be called for in time to come, so we must have the 
schoolmasters who can learn quickly and impart their knowledge to 
men. We must make teachers of the sergeants and corporals, and 
they must be busy a long time. The military instruction in time of 
war is the practical kind of teaching by doing. What cannot time 
and patience do with these 150 new recruits? W'e have remarked 
elsewhere what marvelous soldiers, what generals, these recruits had 
become by March 29, 1865, and how invincible they were in the 
last campaign which so gloriously ended the great Civil War in 
America. If the writer could convey to the reader an illustration 
of the skill of these veterans of 1865 in crawling up to attacking or 
getting away from the lines of a watchful foe, the interest of the 
book would be complete. How well, under direction of an experi- 
enced officer, they could use every tree, stump, knoll, hillock, hollow 
ravine, wall, or ditch to keep some obstacle between them and the 
watchful foe ! How they could disappear from view and be seen no 
more till the puffs of smoke along the face of the enemy showed 
that they were in their holes where there were no holes ! How well 
they could hold on against the enemy's attempts to dislodge them ! 
We would gladly extend this work to give pictures of these private 
soldiers and the individual work they each did, if we had the facts 
and the pictures. We give all we have obtained and some sketches. 




ephrai:n[ k. drew 



A REGIMENT OF RECRUITS. 



499 



Ephraim K. Drew, private Company F, one of two brothers in 
this Company, both excellent soldiers, loyal, faithful, and competent 
anywhere, Ephraim served as Wagoner part of the time, and had 
his courage severely tested on many occasions. He accompanied 
Lieutenant Dole and the writer in an attempt to rescue some of the 
wounded on the morning following the charge of June i8, 1864. 
Had there ever been a question as to his courage before, there never 
could have been afterward. He not only showed his bravery, but 
his loyalty to his comrades and his skill as a veteran soldier. Since 
the w^ar he has been a useful and faithful minister of the gospel. 






FKKJ) A. EDWAKDS. 



JAMES B. PARSONS. 



Fred A. Edwards, our admirable band leader, now a good citi- 
zen of Lincoln, Maine. He tried the horn for us at the reunion at 
Lincoln, but he could not wind it as in 1863. 

James B. Parsons, Colonel of Militia. Postmaster and promi- 
nent citizen of Pontiac, Illinois. One of the best of soldiers. 

We give a picture of Thomas G. Libby as recruit in Company 
A, age fourteen, dependent on mother to pick up after him, and 
again in 1864 as veteran on picket at Cold Harbor. His contribu- 
tion will tell of the development of such a soldier. He is now a 
prominent business man at Vinalhaven and a great helper in main- 
taining the First Maine Organization. We give a cut of him as he 
appears to-day. 



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THOMAS (t. LIBBV, Kkckuit. 



THOMAS (I. LIBBY, A^kterax. 



A Sketch froim the Ranks. 
By Thouias d'. IJbby. 
I enlisted in the spring of 1862, Company A, at the age of 



fourteen years, weighed 



pounds, height 5 feet 3 inches, bein< 



one inch less than the required height, secured mother's consent, 
father, Thomas S. Libby, having enlisted in the spring of 186 1, 
Company C, 7th Maine. After receiving advice and assurance from 
Dr. Wilson, our family physician, that I would not be accepted, 
mother gave her consent. After having her sign her name to the 
Government papers I put my age down as sixteen years. I had 
never been away from home, had never seen a sailing vessel, steam- 
boat, or train of cars. Having an understanding with Capt. ^^^ C. 
Clark, the time soon arrived when he took me to Bangor with the 
Company, where we went into camp, waiting for the Regiment to 
be finally made up and mustered in. Imagine my surprise and 
wonderment on reaching P^angor to behold such a large city with 
its vast fieet of vessels, steamers, and cars; everything that my eyes 
beheld was a continual panorama of a new life. The day soon 
arrived for us to be examined and mustered into the United States 
service. In the meantime Captain Clark had new papers made out 
with my age down at eighteen with mother's name signed by myself. 
In the afternoon, about 2 r. m., on the day our Company was 
examined, my name was called. With face aglow I marched into 



SKETCH FROM THE RANKS. 



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the doctor's tent, where I found Captain Clark who was to intercede 
for me and try and get me through. In order to make my height 
c-ood I secured from mother's quilt a large quantity of cotton batting 
^o put in the heels of my boots. I had all that I could get in when 
I entered the tent. Imagine my surprise when 1 was asked to 




THOMAS G. LIBBY. 



502 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

remove my boots, then coat and vest,until I was revealed in Nature's 
garb ; a match could have been lit on any part of my body. All 
fear vanished and my heart beat with joy when I soon learned that 
I had been accepted. Soon I received my first suit of blue and 
equipments. The suit, although the smallest made, was large 
enough for two boys, but proud I was as I marched to the daguerre- 
otype saloon, then on M'heels near the camp, and had my picture 
taken and sent it home to mother, that she might see how her young 
soldier boy looked. This was found long years after among her 
treasures, when she had passed beyond to her haven of rest. I had 
taken in well the wonderful sights about Bangor and was anxious to 
move on to see the more glorious scenes yet to be revealed, and to 
meet my father, where at Washington I thought the soldiers all met 
together, where they went out and fought the rebels and back at 
night. Last of August our Regiment was off for Washington. I 
shall never forget the reception received in Boston and Philadelphia. 
The ladies made us feel more than proud of ourselves as Lincoln 
soldiers. Many was the time I was grabbed and kissed and asked 
if mother knew I was out, and where her apron string was; if I were 
going to drive the cows home; grease well the upper lip (the fuzz 
was starting); how I would like to take you home. What wonder 
that I was overjoyed to be a soldier with the continual changing of 
the scenes of a new life. 

Arriving in Washington we soon commenced a soldier's life in 
earnest. Drilling, building forts, falling trees, picket and guard 
duty was our daily life. Spring and summer of 1863 I was with the 
Company on Mason's Island guarding conscripts. Returned to 
Fort Sumner and remained there fall and winter of 1863 and 1864. 
With five other comrades we built a small log hut where we lived 
until ordered to the front, spring of 1864, — a band of boys who 
were ever on the lookout for all the good things that might come 
within our grasp. We made a false cellar, the trapdoor of which 
came under our lower bunk. It was here we stored all of our 
drawings, which together or separately we were expected to keep a 
surplus on hand : milk taken from the cows early in the morning, 
eggs, potatoes, apples, and cabbage, all from Lodge and his neigh- 
bors about camp ; pies, cakes, fruit, etc., from our sutlers ; supplies 
of beef, sugar, molasses, pork, hard-bread, and candies at Commis- 



A SKETCH f^R(3M THE RANKS. 



503 



sary Department, whenever one of our number was on guard at the 
Department. While we were never caught in our work, we never 
missed bringing in what we went after but once. This occurred 
upon one dark night in February, 1864. Four of us started for a 
plantation about two miles from camp to secure a beehive with its 
contents of bees and honey, having located the place and laid our 
plans the day before. Arriving at the place we selected our hive, 
plugged up the holes and started across the field for a ravine a mile 
away. We had not proceeded more than a dozen rods when the 
planter's dogs sent up a terrible howl ; but on we went until we 
found the owner with two others with more dogs was in hot pursuit, 
closing on us as we neared the ravine. Feeling there was no chance 
to get away with the hive we finally gave it a toss in a clump of 
shrubbery and put for camp. No one ever knew who tried to get 
away with the beehive. 

The order May, 1864, to join the Army of the Potomac for 
active service was gladly received. Camp and fatigue life had 
become monotonous. We had not up to this time realized what 
actual war was. But soon after passing through Washington on 
review we found ourselves at Spottsylvania, where upon the altar of 
Liberty many of our comrades' lives were sacrificed, one of whom 
was of our camp number, who was by my side when he fell. On, 
on, I went with my Company and Regiment to do what I could to 
help weld together in the fiery furnace of war a crown of glory for 
the old First Maine. During our campaign we often foraged on our 
own account; whenever pigs, hens, cattle, or smoked hams came 
within our reach they were appropriated to our wants. While at 
Cold Harbor I was out on picket; inside of our lines and not far 
away a large plantation was located, and while inspecting the place 
for water to fill our canteens I heard the welcome sound of a squeal 
from pigs. Soon locating the pigs, I went in with the others to 
secure one. Imagine the broad smile on the faces of the boys of 
my post when I walked in with a small pig under the breast of my 
coat. What a feast! After skinning, we cooked the pig in an old 
coft'eepot, without salt. 

Leaving Cold Harbor we finally brought up before Petersburg, 
where I was wounded. Finally reaching our division hospital, 
located near a large plantation about six miles in the rear of where 



504 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

our boys made the fearful charge, a few days over one month found 
our little band of six who left Washington with such high hopes with 
only one still left in the ranks ; five had been killed, wounded, or 
fallen by the wayside on the long, weary marches. The second day 
after arriving at division hospital my wounds were dressed. During 
the five days I was detained there, thousands of wounded soldiers 
were brought from the field every day, among whom were hundreds 
of the Regiment, many of my Company, including boys of my happy 
schooldays. Every day found me administering to the wants of 
my comrades m4io were more severely wounded, a number of whom 
gave up their lives and were consigned to the soldier's grave. On 
June 23d arrived at City Point, there waited a week for a transport, 
from there was taken to New York, thence to Portsmouth Grove, 
R. I., Hospital, which was carried on by contract, prisoners of war 
faring better than our sick and wounded soldiers who were there. 
On July 28th a favorable opportunity was given me to get beyond 
the guard and escape, which I improved. Finally getting aboard of 
the 3 p. M. train for Boston, with a hospital pair of drawers and 
shirt received at City Point, with a long gray gown given me by the 
visiting ladies of the Sanitary Commission, with no shoes or cap, 
and weighing but ninety pounds, without a cent, I was overjoyed to 
get started for nearer home. Arrived in Bangor the second day, 
found that I could not report there. Started for Augusta, where I 
reported at Coney Hospital. Our boys were well taken care of here 
and I soon received a full suit of blue. When upon the following 
day I called upon the Governor, who kindly received me and listened 
with pleasure to my story of escape from the Portsmouth Grove 
Hospital, with many kind wishes he pressed in my hand a five-dollar 
note and stated I should receive a thirty days"furlough, wRich I 
did, and for home to see the loved ones I was glad to go. At the 
expiration of the thirty days returned to Augusta, where I remained 
until April, 1865, when I received my discharge on account of my 
wounds. 

DRAWINC; CLOTHINc; AND RATIONS. 

Drawing clothing or uniforms for a regiment of green recruits 
would certainly be an interesting performance for lookers-on. The 
question of color does not have to be considered. Coat and pants 
were of the regulation blue, so were the little caps with the straight 



DRAWINC; CLOTHlNCi AXD RATIONS, 505 

visors which we wore and usually disliked. It had some merits, 
however. The straight visor was often a great protection from a 
whack in the forehead from the handling of a gun in another 
recruit's hands. The construction of the back part and top did not 
prevent our lying down fiat on our backs with all clothing, caps, and 
boots on. There was no argument about the style of our shoes. 
One shape and one width had to do for all. They had the merit of 
being smooth inside, wide at the ball and low in the instep. As 
they tied over the instep, a man with a low instep could make them 
do, while the high-instep, fleshly-footed man could cut them open at 
the top. The uniform dress coat was not so easy to fit. These 
coats were all made by one pattern in four sizes. If a company 
drew a hundred coats, as the selection went on under care of the 
orderly sergeant, some little fellow like Tom Libby generally had a 
big coar, while Josh Jellerson, the tallest man in the Regiment, 
would be left with a little coat scarcely long enough for Libby, a 
pair of short pants, and number seven shoes. His regulation size 
for shoes was number fifteen. However, swapping around, sending 
for special sizes, and some making over by the tailor in the com- 
pany, soon made of all well-dressed soldiers. Our frocks, our flan- 
nel blouses for working purposes, our. shirts, drawers, and stockings, 
our excellent blankets and well-designed rubber blankets, made on 
the whole an excellent outfit for all kinds of weather. Four soldiers 
messing together and having with them the regular outfit of clothing, 
camp and garrison equipage, and drawing the regular rations, could 
make themselves comfortable and be well fed under most any cir- 
cumstances and in most any kind of weather. 

Issuing rations for a regiment of men is done by the brigade 
commissary in bulk. For instance, the commissary sergeant of the 
regiment receives bread, beans, pork, beef, sugar, coffee, salt, soap, 
and candles, in camp usually three days' rations at a time dealt out 
to the companies in bulk. Some sergeant of each company, acting 
as commissary sergeant, receives the rations for his company in 
bulk. He divides it up to each mess if in camp, and to each man if 
campaigning. The reader will perceive that it would frequently fall 
to the lot of some mess or of some man to get the soup bones the 
last, or the broken part of the hard-bread, the bottom part of the 
sugar barrel, the dust of the coffee, or the gravelly portion of the 



5o6 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

beans. When this luck fell to the growler of the company, he would 
generally appear at the orderly sergeant's quarters demanding 
redress and retribution for the "damn commissary" who had stolen 
his rations and given him dirt. Every mess and every man some- 
times received a portion of this bottom luck. The thrifty orderly 
sergeant's mess usually lived well the three days following the draw- 
ing of the big soup bones. Th6y kept the kettle slowly boiling, had 
excellent beef stew Mith dumplings, Scotch broths, meat pie with a 
crust, good enough for kings, and had plenty left for any growler 
who called for redress. Our beans baked in the ground were so 
good, neighboring regiments, who had never learned to cook beans, 
would sometimes dig them up in the night and so cheat us of our 
breakfast. 




Lieut. GE( )R(4E ROLLINS, Company D. 

An excellent officer and a great Orderly. His picture and 
whereabouts could not be obtained by the author until his Company 
was in print. He was never late before. 




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CHAPTER XX. 

A REGIMENT OF GREEN OFFICERS HIGHLY EslEKMHI) IRIKNDS OF 

THE FIRST MAINE. 

With the exception of the colonel, quartermaster, and sergeant 
major, our officers had seen no real service, so the lieutenant colonel, 
major, ten original captains, and all the lieutenants were entirely new 
to military service or training. They had come from the same varied 
walks of life as did the green recruits. Here was the ambitious 
citizen, wdio had been a selectman, town clerk, or representative to 
the legislature, forty-five or fifty years of age, who now appeared 
as captain of a company. He was six feet three, or under-size per- 
haps, awkward in manners, bent in every direction, slow to learn, 
wTth hands and body following the motion of his mind some seconds 
afterward. He despised the pomp, exactness, and obedience 
required by military law. The exactions of training soldiers were 
held in small esteem by him. Reports, returns, muster rolls, requi- 
sitions, minute accounting for every article however small, keeping 
exact records of himself and his company were all called red tape 
by this formidable-looking captain. He did not understand these 
w^ays, did not w^ant to. He had come out to fight. He really 
believed this himself, until one of the privates, having no more 
respect for military discipline than did the captain, challenged the 
captain to a fisticuff, in which the soldier would evidently have the 
best of it. The captain desired to be respected and to have his 
orders obeyed. Respect did not always follow. The soldiers some- 
times debated his orders in an evening town meeting. 

Then w^e had the smart captain. He really could learn rapidly. 
He understood well, he read the army regulations and acquired the 
tactics in short order. He tried to discipline his company like a 
company of regulars. He tried to be peremptory and do as he had 
seen the captain of regulars do, but his excellent recruits objected 
to such impertinence and had a town meeting. 

We had every grade of captain and lieutenant between these 
two. Some of these young lieutenants certainly gave promise of 



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THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 



being what they afterward became, magnificent soldiers. Generals 
at twenty! bold, dashing, discreet, skillful warriors. Vou have seen 
their faces looking as they did in '65 with their companies. What 
boys! what men! what soldiers! these young officers were. 







GOOD FRIENDS OF THE REGIMENT. 



509 



Of course the very nature of things in military life would have 
the effect to either send the old man home or take his life before he 
ever reached a battle. The boy would become acclimated, accus- 
tom himself to the exposures and hardships of camping and cam 
paigning, while usually the older man gave out before he learned. 

The limits of these pages forbid going into details. The com- 
rades will well understand them. Those who have been born since 
the trying days of the Civil War can only imagine what a grinding 
up, polishing up, and smashing up was this process of developing a 
regiment from green officers and green recruits. 

Among the good friends of the First Maine was a man who, 
though occupying the important office of Vice President of the 
United States and presiding over the deliberations of the Senate, 
was never too busy to prevent him from looking after the interests 
of any young man or soldier of this Regiment, or of any other 
Maine regiment. 

We had another excellent friend who spent some time with us 
and became much beloved by all of us. General Samuel F. Hersey, 
the honored father of Roscoe F. Hersey, of Company F. We give 
herewith a cut of the Vice President. 

We also insert the pictures of the two sons of the foregoing, 
Generals Charles and Cyrus Hamlin, the former our highly esteemed 
Major. 




BvT. Bkk;. (4kn. CHAKLES HAMLIN. I'.vr. M a.i. (^i:v. (VIMS IIA.MI.IN. 



5IO THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

In mentioning our friends we must not forget the kindly atten- 
tions of Senator William Pitt Fessenden, nor of our Representatives 
in Congress from the State of Maine, all of whom gave us several 
visits and much friendly attention. 




Sergeant Mark T. Kmerson and his little daughter Lizzie. 
Little Lizzie and her dolls were frequent and welcome visitors and 
friends of the author in his winter quarters, 1863. The cheer this 
happy little face brought has never been forgotten. 



SOME SKETCHES OF HORACE H. SHAW BY COMRADES W^HO KNEW 
HIM BEST, ADDED TO HIS WORK BY COMMITTEE. 

SA\ich by (J. A'. Fcniald, Captain Co. /'", First Maine Heavy Artittery. 

Capt. Horace H. Shaw was born in Hampden, Maine. His 
boyhood days were spent working on the farm at home, attending 
school a part of the time. Just the place to develop a strong con- 
stitution, firm health, and a strong, clear brain. All these Horace 
Shaw possessed when the writer of this article first met him, as he 
came from Hampden Academy to join Company F as a private 
soldier and take the chances of war with all that it meant in those 
days. 

His ability was recognized from the first and he was made First 
Sergeant of his Company. He filled the position with such ability 



SKETCHES OF HORACE H. SHAW. 5II 

that at the first vacancy, which occurred February 28, 1863, he was 
promoted to Second Lieutenant and took a place acting as Adjutant 
of the Regiment and Aid-de-camp on Brigade Staff soon after. He 
also occupied other places of trust which he filled with such fidelity 
that he was again promoted, January 25, 1864, to the rank of First 
Lieutenant. In this grade he was Aid-de-camp on Brigade Staff, 
first brigade, fourth division, and later Acting Chief Quartermaster 
of the third division of the second army corps. 

I will narrate one incident which will illustrate Captain Shaw's 
generosity and nobleness of character. Shaw and myself were pro- 
moted to grade of First Lieutenant at nearly the same time. Later 
two vacancies for captaincy occurred; Shaw was commissioned for 
Company F and I for Company C. He learned that I preferred to 
remain in Company F and, unknown to myself at the time, he 
declined to be mustered, so that I might have the Companv that I 
preferred. Such friendship I valued above all price. 

Captain Shaw's great executive ability and general manner did 
much to place our Regiment in the front rank of that great army 
which crushed out the Rebellion. 

He was mustered out of the service September 22, 1865, 
declining at the time a commission as Captain in the Regular Army. 
During the years since he left the army he has been honored by the 
citizens where he lives. 

He has been a member of Portland City Cxovernment and 
of the Maine House of Representatives, also Presidential Flector at 
Large, was a delegate to the Ecumenical Council at Washington, 
D. C, in 1 89 1. All these places he filled with credit to himself 
and satisfaction to his constituents. 

\\'e comrades of the old First Maine appreciate what Captain 
Shaw has done in placing a monument on the field where so many 
of our brave boys fell, and also in pushing to completion our Regi- 
mental History. We all realize a feeling of pleasure when we meet 
him and his good wife at our reunions, and wish for them many 
years in their pleasant home by the sea and in sight of those grand 
and beautiful mountains, behind whose lofty peaks, when their sun 
goes down for the last time, may it set in peace and bliss. 



512 THE FIRSr :\IAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Sketch of H. H. Shiuc by James A. Dole. 

Hampden Academy has sent out many talented and loyal men, 
but none more so than Capt. Horace H. Shaw, who left his studies 
in response to Lincoln's call of June, 1862. 

His lot was cast with Company F, First Maine Heavy Artillery, 
and owing to his peculiar fitness he was appointed Orderly Sergeant, 
and it was his duty to keep order among the 100 men of Company 
F, which greatly to his credit finally developed into one of the best 
Companies of the Regiment and certainly the most attractive Com- 
pany when the Regiment was recruited to its full strength. 

The office of orderly sergeant is the hardest of any in the 
company for he has to maintain discipline and at the same time win 
and hold the respect of the men, if he is to advance the company. 
This Sergeant Shaw did, and when the first vacancy occurred among 
the commissioned officers he was promoted to Second Lieutenant, 
and owing to his ability was assigned to the brigade staff and did 
duty at brigade headquarters. His services were so valuable on 
staff duty he was never permitted to return to his Company, but 
was constantly advanced, and when we were ordered to the front in 
May, 1864, he was made Quartermaster of the Regiment, doing this 
service in addition to his duty as Aid. The "boys" little realized 
how much they were indebted to him, riding all day and working 
all night that we might be served. A soldier considered it was right 
to grumble, but there was no grumbling about Quartermaster Shaw. 
He was kind, courteous, generous, brave, and cool in the presence 
of the enemy, and the Regiment was fortunate in having him to serve 
them. If he rode by us while on the weary march we had a cheering 
word, not thinking of self in being fortunate in having a horse, but 
sorry that we were tired and wishing he could furnish us a horse, 
also a good bed when we bivouacked. 

At the first dawn of the day following the fatal charge, he 
requested me and Comrade E. K. Drew to go with him, under cover 
of a dense fog, in search of his friend, Lieutenant Ruggles, and 
some others of Company F believed to be badly wounded on the 
field and unable to get off. We followed him over the breastworks 
and far toward the enemy's works near where the foremost had 
fallen. The fog lifted, and the enemy seeing us fired a volley w^hich 
cut the grass all around him. Still he kept on, the leaden mes- 



SKETCHES OF HORACE H. SHAW. 513 

sengers singing about him, until drawing a third and heavier volley 
convinced us that we must cover ourselves in the ditches and crawl 
off or be laid with our dead comrades. With a sad heart the brave 
Quartermaster had to return, leaving his dear comrades to be 
blanketed only by the clouds of heaven. 

His splendid services soon called him to higher positions and 
he was Acting Chief Quartermaster of the third divison, second 
corps, declining in the meantime to be mustered as Captain of 
Company F, to which he had been commissioned, preferring staff 
duty in order that Captain Fernald might be mustered to the position, 
thus showing unselfishness and true friendly courtesy. 

x^fter the surrender of Lee, the Regiment being ordered into 
the defenses of Washington, he served as Brigade Quartermaster 
until the last of the Regiment was ordered to Maine, where he with 
them was discharged. 

Since the war he has been a captain of industry. While being 
a very busy man he has found time to serve in the Portland City 
Government, Maine House of Representatives, Presidential Elector, 
Delegate to Ecumenical Conference at Washington, 1891, President 
Maine Wesleyan Board of Education; thus through all these giving 
of his best to help his fellow-man, and make his country, for which 
he periled his life, proud of him. 




General RUSSELL B. SHEPHERD. 



Our last Colonel, as prominent citizen of Maine, captain of industry 
banker, and tireless worker. 



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CHAPTER XXI. 

CONCLUSION. 

We have been recalling to our readers the small beginnings and 
marvelous growth of our country in territory, population, and power. 
We have seen the two principles of oppression and freedom devel- 
oped by time and hurried on by self-interest until by the evolutions 
of theix growth the institution of slavery was threshed out, abolished, 
and banished not from our country alone, but from all civilized 
nations. We have noted the political struggles and revolution which 
culminated in the Civil War. We have reviewed the great conflict 
of arms, particularly the operations of that army corps, division, and 
brigade in which we had a part, and our part as a Regiment in the 
great work. Now that the work has been done and forty years and 
one have gone since Rebellion's outbreak, it appears that this 
crime of humanity could never have ended in any other way. It 
was a blot upon human life for this people to wash out in blood, an 
infamous stain upon history to be blotted out in this large new land. 
We are a whole country now. General Barnard, a historian of the 
Confederacy, said in a speech at the dedication of the First Maine 
Monument that he believed he voiced the sentiment of the South 
when he said he was glad the w^ar ended as it did. " Nothing but 
the last ditch, no other army than General Lee's army, no other 
General than General Lee could have pronounced their cause a lost 
cause and had it satisfactory to the South." Both now march 
together. He said they were now^ as loyal to the old flag as we 
were. They proved his words true in the Spanish War. At the 
second inaugural of President McKinley, General Wheeler, formerly 
a Confederate, now a Union, General, marching at the head of both 
Northern and Southern troops, received an ovation from the multi- 
tude little less than that given to the President. We who survive 
have lived to see the Union more perfectly cemented and both sec- 
tions more prosperous than human wisdom could foresee. We have 
seen our country march on to heights of greatness we never even 
dreamed could be attained in our time. Our war with Spain 



5l6 THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

resulted in large acquisition of valuable territory and an important 
increase in the variety of our products for domestic use and foreign 
trade. It has opened for the American nation immense possibilities 
for our future commerce with the Orient and established our posses- 
sions at the gateway of trade with countless millions of people. 
Our prestige as a nation has been vastly enlarged. 

Who shall say that God has not been using the slave trade, 
self-interest, American slavery, our Civil War, our arms and blood 
for his great purposes among men ? He may be using our schools 
and institutions for preparing a people, our African freemen, to 
whom our arms gave liberty, to convey the blessings of liberty and 
Christianity to the dark corners of the whole earth. So, as the time 
for our departure to join our comrades yonder comes, let us give 
thanks for all we have been permitted to do and see. 



GENERAL INDEX. 



lAGB 

Our political history prior to the Civil War 3 

Progress of events during first year of the War \ co 

The Story of the First Maine Heavy Artillery . . ■ 82 

Col. Zemro A. Smith's Contribution 82 

Barker's Poem m 

In the Defences of Washington 95 

Daughter of the Regiment , 103 

In the Field — Spottsylvania 108 

Milford Station and North Anna 112 

Totopotomoy and Cold Harbor 115 

Petersburg battle 119 

Jerusalem Plank Road ' .... 130 

The Mine Disaster • .... 136 

Deep Bottom — death of Colonel Chaplin 138 

Fort Hell 144 

Squirrel Level Road 146 

Boydton Plank Road 147 

The Weldon Raid 151 

Hatchers Run 160 

Advance on the Petersburg Lines 164 

Sailors Creek 177 

Farmville 182 

The return March 192 

Morale of the Two Armies 195 

Back into the Defenses of Washington 200 

The Muster out 201 

Results of the War 202 

Official and Individual History of the Regiment 209 

Field and Staff 213 

Company A 226 

Company B ...... . ...... 241 

Company C 259 

Company D 274 

Company E 289 

Company F 303 

Company G 3^7 

Company H 33^ 

Company I 347 



11 GENERAL INDEX. 

pag: 

Company K -6 

Company L 37 

Company M . . . . . . • . . . . , . -39! 

Fort Knox, Maine, Squad 41 j 

Third Maine Battery as Company M " . .41] 

Unassigned Recruits . 42(j 

Deaths by Disease or Accident 43! 

Casualties of Battle 4- 

Accidents ^g^\ 

A Regiment of Green Recruits 4^1 

Drawing Clothing and Rations . . 50 

A Regiment of Green Officers ^o' 

Sketches of the Author . ' ^ic 



INDEX 



2,200. MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT. 



Abbott, Albert G., Lt., . 242, 244, 456 

Abbott, Bradley W 307, 441 

Abbott, Charles H 366 

Ackley, Samuel B 335, 429 

Adams, Alfred S., Chaplain . . 224, 297 

Adams, Benjamin F 253, 436 

Adams, David W 297, 487 

Adams, Elisha H 297, 482 

Adams, Erastus 398, 471 

Adams, Isaac 381, 483 

Adams, Justis . , 341, 466 

Aiken, Augustus E 321 

Albee, Isaac N 335 

Aldridge, James F 267 

Alexander, William .... 245, 456 

Allen, Charles W 262, 458 

Allen, Simeon E 321,463 

Allen, William 250, 456 

Allen, William L 336, 454 

Alley, Marcus M 381,474 

Ames, Charles E 381 

Ames, David 278, 451 

Ames, John 321,474 

Ames, John F 372 

Anderson, James 321 

Andrews, Eli 355,444 

Andrews, Willard 381, 470 

Annis, James P 235, 424 

Annis, Sanford 312, 479 

Appleton, Joseph 307, 474 

Appleton, Llewellyn A 312 

Archer, Alonzo 340 

Archer, Alvin S 355, 468 

Archer Francis M 356, 480 

Archer, Henry E 372, 431 

Arey, Herbert C 316, 487 

Arey, Theodore R. . . . . . 398 

Arnold, Thomas 292, 439 

Atchinson, Francis 336 



Atherion, Benjamin T., Capt 

Atkins, Joseph K 

Atkins, .Marcellus S 

Atkinson, Timothy C 326, 

Atwell, John W., Capt. , . . 347, 
Austin, Carlton M., Lt., 259, 261, 459, 

Austin, Charles H 284, 

Austin, Daniel 326, 

Austin, John 

Averill, lienjamin D 297, 

Averill, David F 

Averill, James 

Averill, William S 356, 

Avery, Isaac P 

Ayer, Abijah . . . 364, 366, 446, 
Ayer, George G. . , . , . . . 

Ayer, Samuel B 

Babb, Francis 

Babh, William F 

Babbidge, Alvah 381, 

Babbidge, Jienjamin F 

Bailey, Hiram R 

Baker, Aretus H 245, 

Baker, Moses N. H 23^''^ 

Baker, Prentiss M 

Ball, George K 297, 

Barker, Stephen N 398, 

Barlow, Henry G 398, 

Barnes, James A. ... 297, 439, 

Barnes, Joseph H 253, 

Barrell, John 371, 



Barrett, David \V 307, 

Barry, Allen E.. Lt. . . . 333, 334. 

Bartlett, Emerson 292, 

Bartlett, Jeremiah S • 235, 

Bartlett, William, Company B . 253, 
Bartlett, William, Company E . 297, 

Barton, Elijah B 334. 

Barton Lewis 



259, 260 

• 257 

• 356 
44:: 
349 
478 
459 
464 
398 
439 
228 

391 
444 
235 
469 
292 
292 
341 
350 
470 
326 
229 
425 
466 
284 
476 
474 
449 
482 

436 
474 
441 

465 

438 
456 
456 

439 
429 

336 



INDEX. 



Barwise, Franklin C 312,442 

Baston, Fields 380, 447 

Batchelder, Asa . . .321,442,464,476 

Batchelder, Hiram 308, 449 

Batchelder, Isaac P 398 

Batchelder, John N., Lt. . 30 1, 306, 487 

Batchelder, Joseph M 326, 464 

Bates, Oliver W 398, 488 

Bates, Otis B 321 

Beal, Charles W 261 

Beal, Edward N 261 

Beal, Wellington 269, 425 

Bean, Eben W 296, 438 

Bean, Gustavus W 278, 459 

Bean, Horatio F 278. 426 

Beatham, William H, , . . . 284, 426 

Beattie Albion P 380 

Beckford, William A., Lt. . 275, 277, 460 

Beckwith, Milton S 26r, 458 

Beede, George W 382, 447 

Beede, John W 245 

Beede, Richard 1 312,428 

Bell, Henry 245 

Bell, John H 312 

Benner, Israel P 371,468 

Bennett, Alanson 262, 473 

Bennett, Frank 336 

Bennett, Philemon, Jr 398 

Bennett, Phineas b 341, 454 

Bennett, Silas S 398, 471 

Bennoch, John E 349 

Benson, William 229 

Berry, Albert B 235 

Berry, Benjamin 229, 434 

Berry, Paul 278 

Berry, William 382, 470 

Betts, Arthur 257 

Betts, William H 321,463 

Beverly, Smith C 269, 437 

Bibber, Gershom C, Lt. . . . 364,445 

Bickford, Stephen M 278, 487 

Bickmore, Thomas J 398, 471 

Bigelow John 382, 483 

Billings, A maziah . . . 278,426,479 

Billington, Calvin R 245, 456 

Billington, Isaac A 397, 448 

Bird, Edward 284 



Bishop, David 285, 459 i 

Blackden, Allison 307, 441 

Blackden, Coryden C 313, 462 

Blackden, Goff M 307, 462 

Blackman, Almon W 278 

Blake, John W 307, 441 

Blanchard, Francis A 269, 437 

Blanchard, Harvey A 253, 457 

Blodgett, George H 398 

Blood, Elliot F 321, 428 

Blunt, Rufus H 398 

Blyther, Andrew F 340, 465 

Blyther, John W 398 

Bodwell, Nathaniel, Jr 229, 424 

Bolds, Alonzo 326 

Bolton, Hiram G 285, 479 

Bolton, Isaiah B 246, 436 

Bolton, Samuel M 246, 435 

Bond, Augustus C 355, 429 

Bonney, Newton E 350, 485 

Bonsey, Charles E 321, 464 

Bpnsey, George A 321,442 

Bonzey, Joseph S 267, 437 

Booker, James 313 

Booker, John H 382, 470 

Bosworth, Charles W 350, 444 

Boucher, George W 285 

Boucher, Michael .... 234, 435, 490 

Bowden, Edward L 326 

Bowden, James G 269 

Bowden, Jeremiah T 253, 436 

Bowden Sylvester 269, 437 

Bowen, Daniel O., Lt. . 3:9, 331, 382, 447 

Bowen, Jacob R 308 

Bowen, John 283, 460 

Bowers, Ira M., Lt 334, 479 

Bowley, Ephraim 382, 447 

Bowley, Isaac E 229, 424, 453 

Bowley, Kingsbury W 382, 470 

Bowley, Virgil D 382, 447, 480 

Bowman, James W 285 

Boynton, John F 382, 470 

Boynton, Otis B 382, 470 

Boynton, Warren 283 

Bradbury, George E 366, 445 

Bradbury, Josiah P 399, 472 

Bradford, Bartlett 313 



MKMBLRS OF THE REGIMENT. 



Bradford, John 292, 438 

Bradford, Owen D 313, 477 

Bradford, Peleg, Jr 30S, 463 

Bradley, Charles 361 

Bragdon, John J 382,431 

Bragdon, William H 279 

Bragg, Addison M 327 

Bragg, Lysander 2^6, 456 

Braley, David 246, 457 

Brann, George V 283 

Brann, Orrin W 399, 448 

Brann, Samuel 262, 425 

Brastow, George B 399, 432 

Brawn, Ephraim L. . . . 356, 444, 468 

Brawn, Nehemiah 253, 457 

Brawn, Philander C 372, 446 

Brazier, Nathan 269, 458 

Brazzell, James H. , . . 340, 443, 488 
Brewer, George J., Lt. 279, 378, 379, 470 
Brewster, Elias .... 364, 366, 469 

Brick, John 269 

Bridge, Frank 399 

Bridge, William C 397, 449 

Bridges, Benjamin L 382, 431 

Bridges, Cyrus K., Lt. 320, 393, 395, 471 

Bridges, Elijah 399 

Bridges, Nelson, Lt 322, 428 

Bridgham, Leverett C. . , . . 336, 466 

Briggs, Daniel W 279, 426 

Brimmer, Edwin G 269, 437 

Broad, Charles F 279, 459 

Broad, Elisha H 297, 439 

Brooks, Abel 279, 493 

Brooks, Benjamin S 262 

Brown, Augustus 279 

Brown, Calvin 29[ 

Brown, Charles R 383, 485 

Brown, Darius G 308, 440 

Brown, George 279, 460 

Brown, George H 297, 439 

Brown, George M 383, 447 

Brown, George W^ 3qi 

Brown, Homer P 383 

Brown, Jesse 364, 366, 469 

Brown, Joel F 350, 483 

Brown, John, Co. M 399 

Brown, John, Co. I 356 



Brown, John H 383 

Brown, Joseph F 292, 438 

Brown, Joshua L 297, 438 

Brown, Lafayette 307,441 

Brown, Manley S 235, 456 

Brown, Norman S 322, 464 

Brown, Rufus N 327, 464 

Brown, Seth H 292,438 

Brown, Simeon 356 

Brown, Warren M 253, 435 

Brown, Webster 383, 447 

Brown, William H 292, 439 

Bruce, Otis H 229, 456 

Bruce, Robert W 235 

Bryant, Charles M 383 

iiryant, James M 407, 488 

Buck, Albert G 278 

Buck, James H 399 

Buck, William H 293, 461 

Buckley. Horace 399 

Buckmore, Albert C 366 

Budge, Arthur P , Lt 228, 394, 

407, 455, 488 

Bugbee, John W 372, 469 

Bulger, Gorham 283 

Bumps, Arthur D. . . . 341, 443, 488 

Bunker. Charles S 356, 467 

Bunker, Daniel S 336, 466 

Bunker, George A 267 

Bunker, Sewell A. ... 262, 425, 473 

Burgess, Amos 246, 457 

Burgess, Charles A 350, 444 

Burgess, William 279 

Burke, Franklin 342 

Burke, George W 342, 465 

Burke, Lewis 342 

Burke, Thomas, Co. E 297 

Burke, Thomas, Co. I 350 

Burke, Wilmot N 342, 451 

Burleigh, Horace W 279. 459 

Burlingame, Jason 297 

Burlingame, Joseph A. . . 2^2^ 447, 474 

Burnham, Atwood 229 

Burnham, Samuel E., Capt., 226, 227, 455 

Burns. Eben F 262, 459 

Burns, George W 262, 436 

Burr, Ferdinand C -53' 457 



JNDEX. 



Burrill, Eugene 308, 462 

Burton, Elisha 285 

Burton, Josiah 234 

Burton, Nathan E 325, 464 

Bush, George 342, 479 

Bussell, George F 308, 428 

Bussell, Jotham S. ...... 342 

Bussell, Samuel H 336,465 

Bussell, William A 342 

Butler, Edward 267, 425 

Butter, James ........ 399 

Butler, William S - . 262, 425, 459 

Butterfield, Artemas 246, 436 

Butterfield, Manley 246 

Butters, Andrew S 350 

Butters, William F. . . . 399, 472, 485 

Buzzell, Allen W 350 

Buzzell, Benjamin F 246, 436 

Buzzell, Jotham L., Lt ^33^ 334 

Byrne, John 366, 468 

Cain, Francis G 336, 429 

Cain, Jacob L., Jr 327, 463 

Cain, James 262, 436 

Cain, Thomas 262, 425 

Calef, Charles H 279, 484 

Call, Charles 383, 447 

Call, James M 246, 435 

Cambridge, John .... 366, 446, 483 

Campbell, Benjamin S 262, 437 

Campbell, Francis M 361 

Campbell, Franklin 383, 452 

Campbell, Henry S 279 

Campbell, William B 262, 437 

Campbell, William H 269, 436 

Cannon, Richard 336, 466 

Cappers, Alfred W 283 

Card, George E. 399 

Carley, Lyman 322, 463 

Carr, Alexander 279 

Carr, George W 320, 463 

Carr, William 234 

Carson, Charles II 383, 431 

Carson, Charles W 235, 456 

Carter, Alfred 356 

Carter, Henry A 262, 459 

Carter, John G 308 

Carter, Joseph 308, 441 



Carter, Lemuel W 210, 399 

Carter, William 257 

Carter, William S 261 

Carver, Henry 1? 27^ 

Case, Heman 383, 447, 483 

Casey, Alvin C 336, 465 

Casey, Henry W 327, 442 

Gates, Calvin 366 

Gates, William H 340, 465 

Chadbourne, Albert 297, 438 

Chamberlain, Ervin 293, 439 

Chamberlain, Fred A. . . 308, 453, 477 
Chamberlain, William C. . . . 283, 460 

Chandler, Isaac G 399 

Chandler, John C 327, 464 

Chandler, Reuben 342 

Chapm, Albert W 291, 461 

Chaplin, Daniel, Col., 86, 87, 90, 106, 122, 
139, 140, 141, 213, 214, 222, 475, 490 

Chaplin, Edward P 383, 447 

Chapma", F^ranklin 383, 447 

Chapman, Ira 351, 443 

Chapman, John 253 

Chapman, Levi 262, 437 

Chase, Arthur D 380 

Chase, Charles B 297 

Chase, David A 384, 447, 483 

Chase, George M 376 

Chase, Horace G 298 

Chase, Lucian H 293, 439 

Chesley, Jefferson ...... 313 

Chick, Alvah M 313, 440 

Chick, Elias 399, 480 

Chickering, Arthur S 366, 446 

Chipman, Danie4 336 

Church, Barnard G 351 

Church, Eben S 335 

Church, Joseph S. ... 292, 427, 473 

Cilley, Benjamin F 356, 467 

Clare, Charles T 262, 458 

Clatk, Augustus E 246 

Clark, Charles R 308, 440 

Clark, Elijah C 342 466 

Clark, Francis B 331 

Clark, Frank A., Lt. . . 290, 29S, 479 

Clark, Frederick, L 308, 441 

Clark, George P 327, 464 



MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT. 



Clark, James W., Lt. . . 220, 291, 461 

Clark, Jethro W 253, 435 

Clark, Joshua L 356, 444 

Clark, Robert C 366, 446 

Clark, Romulus 384 

Clark, Samuel W 279 

Clark, Urial L 292 

Clark, Whiting S.,Capt 97, 

121, 289, 291, 461 

Clark, William 336 

Clark, William C, Capt.,88, 226, 227, 501 

Clarry, Edward R 399, 474 

Clay, Jonathan, Jr 228, 455 

Clay, Luther 228, 434 

Cleaveland, Elijah K 35 r. 444 

Cleaveland, Howard A 356 

Clement, Albert 257, 487 

Clements, Elijah H 235 

Clements, Erastus B 384, 431 

Clewley, Valentine 279 

Clifford, Daniel 269 

Clifford, Robert 229 

Clindennin, Andrew 399, 449 

Cotfin, George H 335, 466 

Coffin, James A 298, 427 

Coffin, John 250, 457 

Coffin, Lorenzo 342. 429 

Cotfin, Otis P 336 

Colburn, Moses A 349 

Colby, Samuel A., Capt, . . .317, 320 
Colcord, Doane B. . . • . . . 321 

Cole, Edwin 384 

Cole, Hanson 342, 443 

Cole, Henry N 293, 461 

Cole, James 342 

Cole, James A. ...... 246, 457 

Cole, John D 351, 468 

Cole, Nathan C 235, 453 

Cole, Thomas J 351 

Cole, Timothy 277 

Cole, Wilson G 293, 439 

Coleman, John 257 

Collier, Samuel 366, 445 

Collins, Timothy 366, 468 

Colomy, Charles A 246, 457 

Condon, Alfred 322 

Cone, William 366,431 



Conery, Charles 400, 480 

Connoley, Rodger 235, 478 

Cook, Alonzo J. W. S. . . 372,469, 488 

Cook, Cyrus A 262 

Cook, James R 371 

Cook, Jeremiah 28 5, 460 

Cook, Parrion W. . . . 364, 366, 446 

Corbett, John E 372, 469, 483 

Corliss, Augustus H 313, 462 

Corson, Levi, Jr 30S 

Corson, Moses P 372, 469 

Corthell, Edson 340 

Cottle, Joseph W 356, 444 

Courtney, James A 246, 436 

Cousins, Benjamin 336, 466 

Cousins, John A 351, 444 

Cousins, Shepherd 263 

Covell, Joseph W. ...... 279 

Cowan, Alfred M 246 

Cowan, Charles F. . . . 384, 470, 485 

Cowan, Rosalvin P 246, 435 

Cox, George T 371 

Cox, Hartley B 400, 449 

Cox, John 283 

Cox, William B 400, 449 

Crabtree, Isaac N 400 

Craig, John B 322, 464, 487 

Cramp, Charles E 250, 424 

Crawford, Samuel L 342 

Creasey, James R 381, 447 

Creasey, Richard B 380, 470 

Crocker, Nathaniel, Jr 366- 

Crockett, Frederick A 327 

Cromwell, Samuel R. . . 397, 432, 474 

Crooker, Andrew J 381 

Crooker, James S 384,471 

Crooker, John L 384, 447 

Crosby, Enoch S 367, 469 

Crosby, George H 285, 460 

Crosby, Samuel J 367, 446 

Cross, George C 380, 470 

Cross, Noah 235, 424, 473 

Grossman, Christopher v.. Ma j. . 121, 
218, 223, 277,455. 

Crowell, Benjamin L 362, 431 

Crowell, Edward 37-, 468 

Crowell, Samuel W., Lt. . 348, 349. 467 



/ 



INDEX. 



Crowley, John P 235, 456 

Cummings, Frederic A., Capt. . . 291, 

393. 395. 449 
Cunningham, Benson .... 269, 425 
Cunningham, Michael .... 336, 443 
Cunningham, Timothy .... 343, 488 
Currier, Joseph M. . . . 322, 442, 490 

Curtis, Abel J 224, 293 

Curtis, Albert T 285 

Curtis, Ezra N 267, 453 

Curtis, Greenlief P 327, 464 

Curtis, Henry 246, 457 

Curtis, Joel 246, 425 

■Curtis, John B 351,444 

Curtis, Levi D 236, 453 

•Curtis, Levi L 29S, 461 

Cushing, Eben, Jr 367 

Daggett, Charles H 253, 456 

Daggett, Samuel W., Capt. ... 89, 
241, 244, 456 

Dahl, Waldemar 384 

Dailey, John 361 

Daine, Jeremiah ...... 291, 439 

Damon, Robert R 279, 426 

Dana, Thomas 210, 257 

Davis, Aaron B 322 

Davis, Andrew M 250, 436 

Davis, Charles F 228 

Davis, Daniel 325, 464 

Davis, Edmund N 327, 464 

Davis, Everett W 340, 466 

Davis, Fred F 283 

Davis, Isaac H 400, 448 

Davis, Isaiah 327 

Davis, James 356, 485 

Davis, John A 229, 456 

Davis, John C 236 

Davis, Josiah 400, 492 

Davis, Lorenzo D 229, 424 

Davis, Lorenzo T 313, 463 

Davis, Moses 356, 485 

Davis, Newell W 340, 485 

Davis, Randall M 236, 476 

Davis, Samuel T 322, 464 

Davis, Scribner H 236, 455 

Davis, Turner E 236 

Davis, William C 229 



Dean, Ezra 364, 446, 480 

Deane, Francis B 397 

Dearborn, Frank L 357, 467 

Dearborn, John II 373, 469 

Debeck, Robert H 373 

Delano, Evertt M 293, 438 

Delano, Willard G 298, 461 

Delany, George 253, 436 

Depray. Kenney .... 322, 428, 443 

Derby, George B 380,431 

Dermott, William 293 

Derocher, Charles 350 

Derocher, George W 351, 443 

Derocher, Oval 351,443 

Devon, Peter 228 

Devou, Simon 229, 456 

DeWolf, William H 400, 448 

Dickey, Dorendo 348 

Dill, Andrew J 229, 453 

Dill, Charles H 229, 456 

Dill, George W 236 

Dilling, William 384,471 

Dinneen, Daniel 376 

Dixon, William 279, 460 

Dixon, William D 384, 470 

Doane, Henry H 351, 443 

Doane, Levi 357, 443 

Doane, William 351, 468 

Dobbins, William, Jr 336, 466 

Dodge, Charles E 250, 457 

Dodge, David L 322, 442 

Dodge, Everett 337, 464 

Dodge, Ezra H 325, 464 

Dodge, George E., Lt 307, 

378, 379, 447, 470, 474 

Dodge, Ransom C 308, 462 

Dodge, Thomas E 325, 464 

Doe, George W 351, 467 

Dole, James A., Lt 123, 

275, 288, 307, 441, 462,511 

Dolley, John G 229 

Dolley, Lyman H 230, 455 

Donald, Edward J 343, 466 

Donham Isaac 230 

Donnell, Roland B 343, 429 

Donohue, Thomas 283, 460 

Dore, Asa 327, 464 



MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT. 



i 



Dore, Frank B 327, 465 

Dore, James 279 

Dority, John J 373, 445 

Dorman, Orville J 312, 463 

Dorr, Joel A 397, 454, 477 

Dorr, John S 322 

Dorr, Joseph P 279 

Doughty, William H 351,444 

Douglass, Alfred J 400, 448 

Douglass, Calvin 351, 468 

Douglass, John 263, 437 

Douglass, Jehn H 263, 459 

Douglass, Sewall T 321, 442 

Dow, Benjamin .... 236, 424, 451 

Dow, Elijah 298, 486 

Dow, George R 391 

Dow, John 293 

Dow, Willard S 325 

Dow, William G 327 

Dowdell, Richard 351, 443 

Downer, Horatio B 285, 460 

Downey, Maurice 263, 437 

Downs, Charles 384, 447 

Downs, Frank N 384 

Downs, Joseph L 336, 443 

Dowst, John A 357, 444 

Drew, Adrian R 279, 460 

Drew, Ephraim K 123, 

308, 463, 499.512 

Drew, John F 313,462 

Drew, Sylvester 308, 440 

Drisko, Everett W 336, 466 

Drummond, Thomas S., Lt. . . . 276^ 

278, 459 
Drysdale, Thomas B. . . 400, 432, 475 

Dubar, Edward 400 

Dudley, James G 351, 467 

Duff; Isaac 246, 436 

Dulac, Hiram 283, 460 

Dunaff, Robert C. . . . 308, 44'. 4^3 

Dunbar, Alberti J 285, 450 

Dunbar, Otis 283, 460 

Dunham, Charles H 343, 429 

Dunham, Granville 343, 444 

Dunham, Isaac J., Lt. 322, 333, 346, 464 

Dunham, Samuel R 322 

Dunn, Charles E 400, 490 



Dunn, Joseph C. ..... . 236, 481 

Dunning, Isaac 279, 438 

Duren, George 236, 455 

Durgans, William C 285, 426 

Durgin, Jeremiah, 3d 343, 466 

Durgin, WMngate J 285, 426 

Dutton, James W 285, 460 

Dutton, William E 285, 460 

Dwinel, Charles 222, 417 

Eastman, Albert P., Lt 228, 

394. 395' 471 

Eastman, Hazen B 285 

Eaton, Charles 293, 491 

Eaton, Charles A 336 

Eaton, Thomas 293, 461 

Eaton, Sylvester 285, 460 

Edes, Edwin T 291 

Edes, John D 384, 471, 491 

PIdgerly Aaron W 313,441 

Edwards, Daniel M 236 

Edwards, Frederick A. . . 224, 228, 499 

Edwards, Nelson W 385, 447 

Eldridge, Harry L 322 

Eldridge, Sidney S 267, 437 

Eldridge, Stephen D 322 

Eldridge, Wilbur H 322, 485 

Eldridge, William L 267 

Elkins, Jerome B.,Surgeon, 88, 89, 217, 222 

Elliot, Leander F 247, 457 

Elliot, Sylvander G 247, 436 

Ellis, Albert C 283, 459 

Ellis, Franklin 327, 464 

Ellis, Horace E 373, 469 

Ellis, John A 327 

Ellis, Judson P 373 

Ellis, Otis W 308. 428, 441 

Ellis, Sullivan 298, 476 

Elslager, Matthew 400 

Ehvell, Ebenezer 270 

Emerson, Charles 335, 452 

Emerson, George .... 254,436,457 

Emerson, George L 350 

Emerson, Hiram S 385, 447 

Emerson, Ithamar 357, 444 

Emerson, James S 270, 458 

Emerson, Mark T. . . . 306,462,510 
Emerson, Nathan, Jr 306 



INDEX. 



Emerson, Roscoe G 322 

Emerson, Samuel M. . . 223, 283, 424 

Emerson, William F 263, 437 

Emerson, William H 337 

Emery Edward 230 

Emery, Edward E 267, 436 

Emery, Erastus F 351, 485 

Emery, John L 263, 437, 487 

Emery, Wesley 230 

Emery, Willard B 250, 436 

Erskine, Edmund M 357, 468 

Erskine, James B 247, 492 

Erskine, John C 247, 435 

Erskine, William M 254, 451 

Esancy, David 400 

Estes, George A 343, 466 

Eugene, Manley 270 

Evans, Henry A 298, 439, 487 

Eye, Edward W 367 

Farley Hiram 373, 452, 469 

Farnham, David S 313, 427 

Farnsworth, Adrial 337 

Farnsworth, Calvin 337, 466 

Farnsworth, >George S 335 

Farrar, James A 352,468 

Farrow, Abner S. ... 364, 365, 431 

Fassetr, Alton P 298. 439 

Felker, Loomis J 312, 485 

Fenlason, William A 293,461 

Fernald, George R., Capt 303, 

306, 462, 510 

Ficketf, Albert G ^V- 4^9 

Fickett, Campbell A. ... - . 343 

Fickett, Charles E 343 

Fickett, Reuben C 367, 445 

Fields, Lorenzo . 283 

Finn, James 364, 367, 446 

Finney, John 298 

Finson, Charles H 278 

Firth Andrew , • . 280 

Firth, George 288, 426 

Firth. Richard 288 

Fish, George H 280, 426 

Fish, James 298. 439 

Fish, Oscar R 230 

Fish, William 298, 427 

Fisher, John 373, 469 



Fisher, Marcellus L. .... 236, 435 

Fitzgerald, Charles H 308,483 

Fitzgerald, George L. . . 343, 443, 467 

Fitzgerald, John 298, 461 

Fitzpatrick, Daniel 234, 455 

Flagg, Amasa S 230, 455 

Flanders, Daniel J 357, 444 

Flanders, Jehiel S 285 

Flanders, Samuel 293, 439 

Flemming, John 236, 453 

Fletcher, Albion K 293, 439 

Fletcher. Alphonzo . . . 247, 436, 458 

Flood, Michael 234 

Floyd, James S 323 

Flynn, Edward 286 

Flynn, William M 335 

Fogg, Charles 293, 439 

Fogg, Charles W 323 

Fogg, David V 298, 461, 487 

Fogg, Harrison 263, 437 

Fogg, John M 270, 459 

Fogg Willard 270, 482 

Ford, Alverdo W 357, 444 

Ford, Michael 312, 463 

Foss, Benjamin H 337, 443 

Foss, Benjamin M 352, 467 

Foss, Franklin F 340, 429 

Foss, Frederick 270 

Foss, Hillman 340, 466 

Foss, John Q. A 340, 483 

Foster, Daniel G 385, 470 

Foster, Eben W 267, 437 

Foster, Edward S., Lt 261, 458 

Foster, John S 396, 449 

Foster, Thomas, Lt. . . . 378, 379, 470 
Foster, William W. P. . . . 29S, 461 

Fowler, Nathan B 343 

P'owles, Abial 298, 427 

Fox, William H 263. 437 

Eraser, John 247, 436, 457 

Frazier, Alden H 270, 437 

Frazier, Benjamin 267, 437 

Frazier, Charles II 323,442 

Frazier, Dudley C 270 

Frazier, John H 270, 425 

Freeman, George A. . . 210, 400, 449 
Freese, John S 250 



MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT 



Freeze, Isaac Q 352, 444 

Fremont, Franklin 210, 400 

French, Austin Q 247, 435 

French, Frederick E 254 

French, George H 328 

French, Henry M ^^3 

French, Levi W 385, 447 

Fretson, Alonzo 400 

Friend, Daniel B 40!, 449 

Friend, Harrison R 308, 462 

Frost, Benjamin C, r>t., 223, 243, 257, 395 

Frost, Elbridge G 293, 4S2 

Frost, Henry H 280, 4S4 

Frowley, Patrick 407 

Fuller, Mandel M., Lt. . . . 222,417 

Fulton, James E 328, 465 

Fulton, Robert, Jr 308 

Furbish, Floriman D. . . 323, 442, 465 

Furbish, George M .247, 482 

Furbish, Ichabod 2S6 

Furbish, John H 247, 458 

Gardiner, Caleb ....... 367 

Gardiner, Frederic 365 

Gardner, Calvin R., Lt. . 363, 367, 468 

Garey, Edgar M 357 

Garland, George D 270 

Garland, Isaiah 263, 458 

Garland, Newell 270, 437 

Gatchell, Charles A 293 

Gatchell, Charles H 293, 439 

Gatchell, Ludovic 291, 427 

Gatchell, Prince A.. Capt 112, 

221, 227, 302, 407, 434 

Gates, Andrew E 254, 458 

Gates, Charles A 294, 461 

Gales, George S 254, 436 

Gee, George 236 

Genthner, Benjamin T. . . 343, 467, 480 

George, Charles S 385, 447 

George, Timothy W 247, 425 

Gerald, John 247, 425, 491 

Gerrish, Alonzo P 294, 427 

Gerrish, James H. . . . 294, 427, 461 

Getchell, Horace W 367, 469 

Getchell, James F 357. 444 

Gibbs, Herbert T 254, 435 

Gibson, Lucius B., Lt. . . 363, 365, 468 



Gibson. Robert H 371, 469 

Gibson, Samuel 247, 451 

Gifford, Thomas B. . . . 230, 382, 47S 

Gilbert, Thomas 352, 444 

Giles, James A 254, 425 

Gilley, Charles B. . . . 325, 465, 474 

Gilley, Howard M 323, 465 

Gilley, Stephen M 323 

Gilligan, Edward J. . . . 364, 365, 446 

Gillespie, Isaac W 280 

Gilman, Benjamin iM 340, 467 

Gil man, David F 380, 447 

Gilman, Edward G 240, 424 

Gilman, George E 308, 441 

Gilman, Rufus H 313, 428 

Gilman, Walter S 2S0, 460 

Gilmore, Joseph A 328 

Gilpatrick, John 352, 444 

Ginn, John E 323, 442 

Girrill, Samuel V 294,401 

Glidden, Jeremiah 230 

Glidden, Levi 401, 47[ 

Godfrey, Benjamin F 325 

Godfrey, James A., Capt. . 317, 320, 464 

Goodale, William 328 

Goodell, James, Jr 309. 462 

Goodwin, Alonzo 313 

Goodwin, Augustus . . . 357, 430, 450 
Goodwin, Dexter . . 294, 427, 461, 476 

Goodwin, Isaac B 32S. 465 

Goodwin, Joseph 280 

Goodwin, Robert 337, 4S9 

Googings, Calvin A 298 

Googins, James M 267, 425 

(lorham, Edward W 251, 457 

Gould, Edwin W 32^, 465 

Gove, Freeman D. . . . 247, 457, 478 

Gowdey, Josiah M 328, 465 

Gowen, Orrington 309. 44^ 

(Iraflfam, Theodore H 352, 444 

Gragg, Reuben, Jr., 263, 4 58 

Grant, Albion K. P 280, 460 

Grant, Elisha, C 254 

Grant, George W 254 

(Irant, George W., Lt. . . 259, 260, 436 

Grant, Henry W 337^ 466 

Grant, Hiram, J j^S- 44^ 



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INDEX, 



Grant, Isaac W 3 [3, 441 

Grant, James A 254,457 

Grant, Joel K 321, 463 

Grant, Stephen 309 

Grant, William H 355 

Graves, Reuel 247 

Gray, Alonzo 254 

Gray, Charles W 323, 442 

Gray, Ezra C 343, 452 

Gray, Ezra P 263, 437 

Gray, James C 307, 462 

Gray, Jefferson 254, 425 

Gray, Jeremiah 343, 466 

Gray, John M 401 

Gray, Josiah 323 

Gray, Stillman 263, 437 

Gray, Washburn D 270, 426 

Gray, William T. . . - . , . 309, 428 

Green, Charles 401, 472 

Green, William C 323, 464 

Greene, Daniel 385, 448 

Cireenough, George W. . . . 299, 439 

Gribben, Benjamin 401 

Griffin, Austin P 385, 432 

Griffin, Benjamin M 230, 455 

Griffin, Elias 337, 466 

Griffin, Horace C 401, 448 

Griffin, Thomas H 234, 450 

Griffiths, John 236, 424 

Grindell, Kenney S 323 

Grindle, Robert 261, 491 

Grinnell, Joshua 299, 461 

Gross, Hezekiah E 323 

Gross, Nathan E 323, 464 

Gross, Rufus 352, 467 

Grout, Newton S 292 

Grover, Benjamin G 230, 487 

Grover, Enoch 230 

Grover, James H 270, 437, 477 

Grover, John C 396, 471 

Grover, William 352, 443 

Guppy, Albert 352, 468 

Guppy, Stillman 357, 467 

Hagerty, Myrick 397 

Hall, Andrew 367, 446 

Hall, Andrew D 352, 430 

Hall, Enoch L 337 



Hall, Frederick A 397 

Hall. Frederick T 309 

Hall, Henry S 280, 490 

Hall, James E., Lt. . . . 319, 320, 463 

Hall, James W 385, 471 

Hall, John 313, 428, 491 

Hall, John H 294 

Hall, Stephen 244 

Hall, Warren L 337, 466 

Ham, John W 352 

Hamlin, Charles, Maj 88, 

95, ro6, 215, 222, 508 

Hamlin, John M 381, 447 

Hammon, Rollins 357, 445 

Hamor, David B 385, 432, 471 

Hamor, Edward 385, 470 

Hancock, Freeman S 323, 479 

Hancock, Selden 352, 444 

Hannon, Michael 331 

Hanscom, Enoch L. . . . 367, 446, 468 

Hanscom, John W 280, 460 

Hanson, Charles W 299, 439 

Hanson, Nathan D 309, 462 

Hanson, William K 316 

Hapworth, Simeon A 254, 457 

Harden, Cushman E 263, 437 

Hardy, Amos E 309, 441, 477 

Hardy, Charles H 357, 444 

Harlow, Ebcnezer D 280,451 

Harlow, William, Jr 358, 485 

Harmon, Andrew J 367, 446 

Harmon, William . . . 230, 455, 487 

Harmon, William H 299 

Harriman, Joseph E 401 

Harriman, Stephen F 299, 461 

Harrington, George H 340 

Harrington, Jeremiah . . 263, 437, 484 

Harris, Nicholas 352, 445 

Harris, Stephen 385, 470 

Harris, William 352, 430 

Harrison, James H 352, 467 

Hart, Marcellus E 401 

Hart, Samuel 337. 466 

Haskell, Albert 277, 460 

Haskell, Charles T 337, 483 

Haskell, George A. . . . 283, 426, 450 
Haskell, John H ^o\, 432 



MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT, 



Haskell, Sewall F. . . . 263, 437, 478 

Hastings, Hervey L 261, 459 

Hatch, Benjamin F 251 

Hatch, Charles J 373 

Hatch, Elisha G 323 

Hatch, Emery W 286, 482 

Hatch, Thomas 286, 460 

Hathaway, James A 352, 467 

Hathorn, John E 401 

Hayes, Albert 299, 453, 461 

Hayes, Cyrus B 299, 439 

Hayes, Daniel W 343, 429 

Haynes, John F 323, 464 

Hayward, George H 367, 446 

Hazelton, Joseph 286 

Heagan, William H 328, 464 

Heard, Cyrus 309, 463 

Heard, John 309, 476 

Heath, Austin 230 

Henderson, Thomas S. . . . 401, 472 
Hendrickson, Charles . . . -331, 486 

Henry, Jacob 367, 469 

Henries, George G 267,459 

Herrin, Charles G 401, 449 

Hersey, Roscoe F., Capi. . ;^o^, 306, 441 

Heywood, Charles L., Lt. ... 224, 

227, 240, 323, 464 

Hickey, John R 280 

Higgins, Edmund 264 

Higgins, George E 364. 367 

Higgins, Henry A 385, 448 

Higgins, John 264 

Higgins, John P 264, 437 

Higgins, Nathan, Jr 401,471 

Higgins, Richard 264, 437 

Higgins, Robert 299, 461 

Hill, Edwin P 323, 453 

Hillard, Atwood 294, 462 

Hilton, Amos M 299 

Hilton, Andrew J., Lt. . . 242, 244, 457 

Hinckley, Lorenzo, Capt 306 

Hinkley, Arthur P 264, 45S 

Hinton, Benjamin W 286 

Hiscock, Gustavus B 294, 439 

Hiscock, Samuel T 292, 461 

Hodgdon, Amos K 299, 462 

Hodgdon, Thomos A 323 



Hodgkins, John F 353, 443 

Hodsdon, Oliver P. . . . 313. 428, 479 

Holbrook, James S 257 

Hollis, Andrew J 264 

Holmes, Jacob B 314, 440 

Holmes, William L 35S. 445 

Holt, Amos 230, 435 

Holway, Calvin P 344, 466 

Hooper, Andrew .... 236, 482, 493 

Hooper, George P 326. 465 

Hooper, George W 237, 456 

Hooper, Vinal F 323 

Hopkins, Nathan A 254,43!^ 

Horton, William ....... 371 

House, Charles J., L^. . . . 85, 86, 273, 

294, 3'8, 13'. 439-461 

Houston, John M 326, 465 

Houston, Orrin .... 309, 44 r, 485 

Howard, Arthur F 237, 473 

Howard, Edward J 270 

Howard, Henry W 23c, 455 

Howard, Leonard E 294, 453 

Howard, Moses G 3S5, 471 

Howard, Thornton McD. . . . 385, 471 

Howe, David 402 

Howe, George W 367, 469 

Howe, Henry M 280, 460 

Howe, William A 278, 460 

Howes, Frederic C, Capt. 317, 320, 463 

Plowes, Horace, 273^ 44^ 

Hoyt, Alfred 402, 483 

Hoyt, Lorenzo D 278, 438 

Hoyt, Nathaniel S 245 

Hoyt, Upham A 358, 445 

Hubbard, John W 328 

Hughes, John 230, 434 

Hunter, George .... 364, 368, 469 

Huntley, Ambrose A 365, 445 

Huntley, Charles T 368, 446 

Huntley, Christopher C . . . 368, 446 

Huntley, James W 36S, 469 

Huntoon, Woodman C. . . . 32c. 442 
Huntress, Warren A., Lt. . 226, 227. 478 

Hurd, Alvin W 230 

Hurd, John W 280, 427 

Hurd, Josiah E 2S0, 459 

Hutchins, Calvin L 353, 468 



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INDEX 



Hutchins, George W 324 

Hutchins, Joseph S 254,425 

Hutchins, Wesley H 324, 428 

Hutchinson, Charles 286 

Hutchinson, Christopher L. . . . 280 
Hutchinson, Henry C . . . . 247, 435 

Hutchinson, Henry W 247,458 

Inman George 251, 458 

Ireland, Corydon 280, 460 

Irving, David 234 

Jackson, Aaron W 294, 439 

Jackson, Benjamin 251, 436 

Jackson, Bradish B. . . . . . 294, 439 

Jackson, Charles A. . . . 324, 428, 474 

Jackson, Flavil B 299, 439 

Jackson, George F 299 

Jackson, Henry R 397 

Jackson, Irving C 328, 465 

Jackson, John 278, 459 

Jackson, WilJiam G 344, 466 

James, Elisha, Jr 386, 448 

James, Hiram S 386, 454 

Jaquith, Andrew J., Capt. . . . 347 

349. 444, 467 

Jefferds, Edmund 314,462 

Jellison, Charles W 268, 438 

Jellison, Daniel 270, 482 

Jellison, John 280 

Jellison, Joseph ....... 237 

Jellison, Joshua T 264, 505 

Jenness, Edward 237, 456 

Jennison, Edward E 396, 471 

Jewell, Barnet N 373, 469 

Jewell, David S 373, 469 

Jewell, Francis R 237, 424 

Jewell, George W 373, 446 

Jewett, James S 358, 468 

Jipson, William H 328, 464 

Johnson, Charles E 380 

Johnson, Charles W. , . 251, 436, 458 
Johnson, Edgar M. . . . 364, 368, 469 

Johnson, George A 281 

Johnson, George E 28 1, 460 

Johnson, John, Jr. ... 364, 368, 468 

Johnson, Joseph P 402 

Johnson, Roscoe G 281, 4t;3 

Johnson, William P 402 



Johnson, William W 324, 428 

Johnston, Charles H 402, 432 

Johnston, Eben W 328, 474 

Jones, Austin L 286 

Jones, Charles A 283, 477 

Jones, Charles W., Co. B. . 245457, 475 
Jones, Charles W., Co. F. . . 314, 440 

Jones, Isaiah L 402, 454 

Jones, James 328 

Jones, Lorenzo D 247, 425 

Jones, Phineas P. . . . 402, 432, 472 

Jones, Samuel P 28 r 

Jonep, William G 294 

Jordan, Elbridge G 248 

Jordan, Henry C 264 

Jordan, Horace B 294 

Jordan, Joseph 257, 484 

Jordan, Josiah M 353, 490 

Jordan, Reuben F 373 

Jordan, Walter 264, 459 

Joy, Francis E 309, 441 

Joy, George W 328, 465 

Joy, John S 341 

Judkins, William 386, 471 

Keating, John 255, 458 

Keech, Milo ....... 299, 427 

Keen, Addison C. . . . 231, 424, 453 

Keen, Edwin J 328, 428 

Keen, James S 329, 42S 

Keen, Seneca E 329, 465 

Keith, Henry 402 

Keith, Millage B 371 

Keith, Philip C 402, 472 

Kelley, Aaron W. ..... 337, 466 

Kelley, Job 358, 467 

Kelley, John H 309, 476 

Kelley, Mark P 402, 449 

Kelley, Walter K 237 

Kennedy, Daniel 365, 431 

Kennedy, James 237 

Kennedy, Jotham J 368 

Kennerson, William R. . . . 299, 461 

Kenny, George W. 326, 465 

Kenney, Isaac M 324 

Kent, William H 255, 490 

Kernan, Edward J 368, 469 

Kief, William B 368, 446 



MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT. 



m 



Kilbourne, Daniel W 386, 447 

Kilbourne, William W. . . . 386, 448 
Kilby, Edward B. . . . 368, 445, 476 

Kimball, Charles W 358 

Kimball, Henry J 251 

Kimball, Oscar 270, 473 

Kincaid, Charles W 271 

King, Cyrus F 2C4, 426 

King, Sylvester 386 

King, William 3^6, 448, 470 

Kingman, Luther 264, 478 

Kingston, James 234 

Kirk, Calvin 281, 482 

Kittredge, George 261, 458 

Kneeland, Aaron 231 

Knight, Alvah B 402, 449 

Knight, Andrew S 309, 441 

Knight, Russell L. . . . 3S6, 432, 471 

Knight, Zacharia B 294 

Knights, Joseph W 228, 478 

Knights, Willard 231 

Knowles, Abiather J., Capt. . . . 275, 
28S, 361. 376, 380,470 

Knowles, Andrew J 396,471 

Knowles, David A 396,449 

Knowles, George C 386, 480 

Knowles, George W 320 

Knowles, James 314 

Knowles, John F., Lt. • . 290, 291, 438 

Knowlton, Dallas 396,471 

Knowlton, Francis G 271,437 

Knowlton, Franklin R. ... 402. 472 
Knowlton, Llewellyn .... 286, 460 
Knowlton, Nathan . . . 2S6, 427, 453 
Knowlton, William, Jr. ... 286, 460 

Knox, Charles H 353 

Knox, Simeon P 299 

Knox, Ward A 281 

Labree, Cyrus S 294, 438 

Labree, George W^ 292, 473 

Ladd, Edwin L 329, 465 

Ladd, Nathaniel 237, 456 

Lancaster, Charles H 237, 456 

Lancaster, Frank G 386, 47 1 

Lancy, John A., Lt 89, 222, 

304, 316, 34 r, 466 
Lander, William W 402, 490 



Lane, Hezekiah H., Lt. . 260, 273, 28 1 

Lane, Jonathan C 277, 460 

Langlev, Amaziah 255, 435 

Langley, Charles L 255, 425 

Langley, James 255 

Langley, Joseph R 255, 458 

Lansel, Amos R 3^3 

Lansill, Elbridge T 248 

Larrabee, Benjamin F 3S6 

Larrabee, Charles 3t4, 462 

Larrabee, S«wall 314 

Larrabee, Taylor 374, 446 

Lathrop, George E 329 

Lavalley, Charles R 248 

Lawrence, Enoch S 248 

Lawry, Isaac M 314,463 

Leach, Albert 320, 463 

Leach, Benjamin 402, 449 

Leach, Francis C 324 

Leach, Francis N 324, 464 

Leach, Frank R 281, 482 

Leach, Obed 324, 442 

Ltach, Uriah B 324, 474 

Leach, Warren R 358 

Leadbetter, Herbert . . 248, 436, 456 

Leary, John J 331,428 

Leathers, Daniel R 281 

Leathers, George H 281 

Leathers, John S 324 

Leavitt, Charles N. . . . . 248, 457 

Leavitt, Justin M 358, 445 

LeBelle, Joseph 255, 458 

Lee, George 231,424 

Lee, Leonard W 344, 466 

Lee, Michael 268, 458 

Legrow, David A. . . . 309. 441, 487 

Legrow, James L 294 

Leighton, Curtis 337 

Leighton, George P 299, 439 

Leighton, Jason 337, 467 

Leighton, Thaddeus 337 

Leighton, Thomas 403, 472 

Leighton, Walter 281 

Leland, Samuel C 231 

Lenfest, Charles W., Cai)t. . . . 244, 

362, 376, 395 

Lennon, Daniel 361 



Leonard, Henry C, Chaplain . . io6, 
210, 216, 222 

Leonard, John N 237, 424 

Lewis, James 284 

Libby, Alonzo 329, 465 

Libby, Ellery B 337, 430 

Libby, John S 286, 460 

Libby, Thomas G. . 231, 456, 499, 500 

Lilly, George F 386 

Lilly, Stephen 3S6, 448 

Lincoln, Albert R., Asst. Surg. . . 88, 
1 12, 210, 221, 223 

Lincoln, Elijah 374 

Lincoln, Isaiah L 374, 446 

Lincoln, Richard E 368 

Lincoln, Sylvanus G 368, 468 

Lindsey, Charles P 299, 439 

Lindsey, Francis D 300, 436 

Liscomb, John M 268, 458 

Littlefield, Daniel 374, 446 

Littlefield, Nehemiah . . 374, 446, 491 

Lloyd, George W 403, 472 

Lloyd, Robert T 403 

Lloyd, William ...... 271, 426 

Lombard, Andrew J 344, 451 

Long, Charles H 271,458 

Lopaus, Roscoe G 326 

Loran, Thomas .... 210, 251, 436 

Lord, Charles H 255 

Lord, Charles T 403 

Lord, Cyrus A 237, 455 

Lord, David 358, 443 

Lord, Edwin F 353, 444 

Lord, Eugene 314, 462 

Lord, Francis J 300, 439, 461 

Lord, Henry 312, 463 

Lord, Lewis 295, 461 

Loring, Jeremiah 368, 445 

Loughery, James 255 

Louis, Thomas 210, 257 

Love, Joseph C 386, 44S 

Lovejoy, Charles M 237, 435 

Lovell, Charles E 248, 458 

Low, Frederic C, Capt. . 24[, 244, 487 

Low, George W 341,430,443 

Low, Philander D 335, 443 

Low, Wilford J 341 



Lowell, Charles W. . ..... 281 

Luce, George W 386,448 |j|[ 

Lufkin, Henry H. ... 300, 439, 482 

Lufkin, Herrick 387, 448 

Lunt, Charles W 248 

Lunt, Henry L 268, 459 

Lunt, James W 324, 465, 483 

Lunt, William T 268, 458 

Lurvey, Gilbert L 324, 465 

Lyford, Benjamin C 295, 440 

Lyford, Edward 397, 449 

Lyman, David J 271 

Lyman, Joseph 471 

Lynch, John 262, 436 

Lyon, Franklin 234, 424 

Lyon, Reuben 368, 446 

Mack, James T 371,445 

Maddocks, Alexander H. . . . 403, 472 

Maddocks, Benjamin 264 

Maddocks, Charles H. . . 309, 441, 477 

Maddocks, Edwin R 316 

Maddox, George W 387, 448 

Madigan, John 300 

Maguire, Arthur H 237 

Mahoney, Timothy 284 

Malbon, Walter S 358, 467 

Mailer, John D 369, 346 

Malmquist, Gustavus .... 371,469 

Manley, Daniel W 324 

Mansell, William 237, 435 

Mansfield, Stacey T 344 

Manter, Otis H 312 

Marceys, Edwin G. . . . . 264, 437 

Markes, Warren 314 

Marquis, George F 248, 456 

Marsh, Albert W 353 

Marsh, John 324, 465 

Marsh, Melville C 353 

Marshall, James D 358 

Marshall, Silas M 331, 428 

Marston, Arlington B., Lt. ... 277 

Marston, James L 237 

Marston, Leander K 341 

Martin, Philonas K 403, 474 

Martin, Robert A 387, 470 

Mason, Broadstreet 314, 441 

Mason, Timothy M 264 



MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT. 



Matthews, Thomas 264, 492 

Maxfield, John V. . . . 387, 448, 483 

Maxim, Leander 295, 439 

Maxwell, Cyrus S, 234, 424 

May, Thomas L 309, 440 

Mayberry, Isaac J 353, 430 

Mayo, Joshua C 264 

Mayo, Levi K 314, 440 

Mayville, Henry H 251 

Mayville, William S 2i;i 

McCabe Dennis C 326 

McCabe, Peter 271,438 

McCarthy, Patrick 374, 469 

McCaslin, John B 321, 463 

McClusky, Thomas 281 

McCobb, Isaac P. F 248 

McCollough, Samuel G. . . . 374, 468 

McCombie, John 358 

McCoy, Leonard 251 

McCue, Patrick 255, 436 

McCullough, John 331 

McCurdy, Andrew C, Lt. . . 395, 396 

McCurdy, Daniel 231, 455 

McDivit, Barnard 374, 446 

McDonald, Stephen L 295 

McDougald, Archibald . . . 284, 475 

McDowell, George 1 403 

McFarland, Andrew W. . . . 295, 440 

McFarland, Henry W 264 

McFarland, Wellington .... 264 

MeFee, Asa 371, 431 

McGlauthry, Arthur 324 

McGown, Llewellyn, .... 264, 438 
McGrath, James . . . . . .251, 435 

McGrath, Richard P 248, 473 

McGray, Ezra 255, 436 

McGuinnis, Michael 257 

McGuire, Patrick 368 

McHugh, James 248 

Mclntire, Harrison P 300, 440 

Mclntire, Winslow H 387, 470 

McKechnie, George B 353,488 

McKeen, James 255, 482 

McKellar, James F 312,462 

McKellar, William S 374 

McKenna, Francis 257, 487 

McKenney, Charles H. ... 24S, 435 



McKenney, Jacob 324 

McKenney, Miles, Lt 243, 245 

McKenzie, Archibald .... 369,474 

McKenzie, Owen C 337, ^30 

McKierman, Frank 258, 425 

McKusick, Nahum 224, 300 

McLaughlin, Francis .... 374, 446 
McLaughlin John, Company I . . 358 
McLaughlin, John, Company G . 329,442 
McLaughlin, Thomas .... 369, 431 

McMann, Charles 403, 448 

McNamara, Joseph 300 

McPheters, Greenlief 358 

Mead, Daniel A. . - . . . . 324, 428 

Meader, Joseph H 353, 467 

Mears, Joseph R 387, 448 

Meehan, Cornelius 324, 465 

Meehan, Ellis 324, 428 

Mercer, Charles 350, 468 

Merriam, Willard 387, 470 

Merrill, Anson C 353, 467 

Merrill, Charles, Capt. 227, 455, 393, 407 

Merrill, Charles II 281 

Merrill, Delvin B 295, 440 

Merrill, James 403, 44S 

Merrill, William H 403, 454 

Merrithew, Ezekiel 374, 469 

Merritt, Jefferson D 338 

Merritt, Wyman 338 

Metcalf, Chesley L 353, 468 

Michael, Zina, Jr 353, 467 

Miles, William L 265, 459 

Miller, Alphonso 255, 457 

Miller, Charles 365 

Miller, John 238, 484 

Miller, Joseph 403 

Miller, Thomas 309 

Miller, W^illiam A 2S4 

Millett, Cyrus B 344 

Milliken, Udolph 326 

Mills, David R 255, 457 

Mills, Nathan M., 223, 248. 423, 455, 491 

Mills, W^hitefield 359, 443 

Milton, Edward J 353, 468 

Minot, Edward G 403, 471 

Mitchell, Charles F 295 

Mitchell, Harrison L 314, 440 



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INDEX. 



Mitchell, Henry H 403, 448 

Mitchell, Jerome 359, 443 

Mitchell, John A 403 

Mitchell, John E '403, 472 

Mitchell, Lewis 341, 430 

Mitchell, Moses U 295, 427 

Modery, John H " . 344 

Moholland, Joseph 369, 469 

Monroe, Erastus T 295 

Montgomery, John F 312, 463 

Mooney, James 364, 365 

Moore, Alfred 387 

Moore, Charles H 364, 565 

Moore, Hezekiah C 404, 449 

Moore, James M 353, 444 

Moore, Orlando 404, 452 

Moore, Peter 300 

Moore, Richard V., Lt. . . 347, 349, 444 

Moore, Samuel W 404 

Moore, William C 261 

Morey, John A 314,428 

Morgan, Algernon 268, 458 

Morgan, David M 404, 449 

Morgan, Franklin W 324 

Morgan, Isaac N., Lt. . . 243, 244, 435 

Morrill, Franklin 271, 458 

Morrill, George 271, 437 

Morrill, James 281, 484 

Morrill, John R 231, 435, 482 

Morrison, Charles H 231,456 

Morrison, Hugh A 231, 435 

Morrison, Solomon 256 

Morse, Charles C 380, 469 

Morse, Horace 231 

Morse, Joseph 314,463 

Morton, Almon C 300, 439 

Morton, Anderson P 404 

Morton, George F 359> 43i 

Morton, Harry G 300 

Morton, Ithamar D 349, 443 

Motz, George L 369, 431 

Motz, Henry W 369, 445 

Motz, James C 369, 469 

Motz, Raymond P 369, 469 

Moulton, Edward K. . . 281, 453, 460 

Moulton, Henry S 387, 448 

Mower, Starling 404, 449 



Mudgett, Jacob 248, 457 

Miinch, Christopher 271, 437 

Murch, John A 314, 428 

Murch, Nahum ...... 265, 459 

Murphy, Byron W 396, 474 

Murphy, John, Co. A . . . . 234, 4155 
Murphy, John, Co. C . . . . 265, 438 
Murphy, John, Co. G . . 324^ 442, 489 

Murphy, Patrick 369, 431 

Murphy, Thomas 331 

Murray, Lafayette . . . - . 344, 451 

Murray, Richard 354 

Myrick, Stephen 295 

Myrick, Richard C 325 

Nash, Augustus P. . . . 338, 429, 481 

Nash, Horatio P 338, 465 

Nash, James A 341,466 

Nash, Joshua 1 33S 

Nash, Moses E 338 

Nason, Aaron 286, 460 

Nason, Ambrose 114,441 

Nason, Charles H 387, 432 

Nason, John H 248 

Nason, John 2d 329 

Nason, Joseph W 271, 458 

Nason, Samuel H 309, 462 

Nason, Wentworih 354, 431 

Nason, William K 248, 457 

Neal, James M 354 

Neal, Thomas M 238,424 

Neddo, Thomas 354, 467 

Nelson, Elbridge G 374, 446 

Nelson, Horatio 238, 456 

Newbit, William T 300, 462 

Newell, James P 330, 431, 452 

Newell, Warren-H 251 

Newenham, William R., Lt. 332, 334, 465 

Newman, Henry H 387, 447 

Nichols, Francis O. . . - . . 309, 487 

Nickels, Timothy 404, 449 

Nickerson, Cornelius . . 364, 369, 452 

Nickerson, George J 309, 463 

Nickerson, Loomis T. . . 387, 448, 470 

Nickerson, Nathan E 387, 448 

Noble, Charles 231 

Noble, Henry 23 1 

Norcross, George H 335 



MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT. 



Norton, John F 344,466 

Norton, Thomas 404 

Noyes, Charles H 387, 447 

Noyes, John 404, 488 

Noyes, Randall C 300, 440 

Nute, Charles W., Maj 219 

224, 227, 423, 455 
Nute, Israel H. ...... . 238 

Oakes, Benjamin F., Capt. 350, 378, 391 
Oakes, George H., Lt. 350, 378, 380, 454 
Oakes, Samuel J,, Capt 163 

347. 349. 467, 485 

Ober, Joffli S., Lt 291 

O'Brien, Francis 374 

O'Brien, William J 388 

O'Leary, Dennis 238 

Oliver, Gideon K 286 

Olmstead, Isaac L* 231, 456 

O'Neil, Owen 271, 378, 479 

O'Neil, Patrick 371, 469 

Orcutt, Alfred E 329, 429 

Ordway, Ebenezer B 404, 432 

Ordway, Frederick 404, 472 

Orne, Amos D 300, 440 

Orne, James R. . • . . 300, 440, 461 

Orr, Alonzo A 310, 462 

Orson, hupple 210, 258 

Osborn, Edward C 231 

Osborn, George E 234 

Osborn, George J 314, 428 

Osgood, Albert J. . . . 388,448,470 
Osgood, James F. . . . 271,487,492 

Otis, Ivory 329, 465 

Over, William H 210, 404, 449 

Overlock, Alvin 359, 468 

Overlock, James W 301, 440 

Owen, Daniel E 359 

Owen, David 388, 432 

Owen, Walter 372, 446 

Packard, Luther W 359 ; 

Page, David 369, 446 

Page, Jonas 286 

Page, Lewis M 320, 464 

Page, Thomas 338 

Page, Willard 38S, 454 j 

Page, William G 301,462 | 

Paine, Rotheus E., Surgeon, 88, 89, 217, 222 I 



j Palmer, Albert C ^50 

Palmer, David 295, 440 

Palmer, Ferdinand . . . ^04, 454, 48S 

Palmer, James ^q^ 

Palmer, Levi 29c 

Palmer, Thomas II., Lt. . 332, 334, 417 

Parker, Alexander j^y^ 4^-, 

Parker, James M 265, 45S 

Parker, Lorenzo 281 

' Parker, William T , Capt. ... 112- 
260, yj-], 379, 447 

Parkhurst, Charles E 284, 460 

Parks, Hoyt R 256, 457 

Parshley, Charles M 295, 438 

Parshley, Moses A 29s, 396 

Parsons, Edmund C. . . 354, 444, 488 

Parsons, Edward H 405 

Parsons, Isaac H 249 

Parsons, James B 23 r, 499 

Parsons, Lauriston C 329, 429 

Partridge, John H 286 

Partridge, William T 359, 468 

Pattangall, William R., Capt. . . 112 
362, 364, 445 

Pattee, Ezra 314, 463 

Patten, Charles L 295, 462 

Patten, Luther K. . . . 306, 441, 481 

Patterson, Alfred P 388, 470 

Patterson, Andrew 310, 440 

Patterson, Aurelius H 380, 470 

Patterson, P'rederick ^\'. . . . 374, 468 

Patterson, Henry A 388, 470 

Patterson, Peter 310 

Patterson, Rufus E 388, 471 

Paul, Alfred K 388, 471 

Peach, John H 265, 426 

Peacock, Jesse J 295, 427 

Peakes, Rufus P 325, 464 

Pearson, John S 277 

Pease, Charles F 286 

Peasley, Horace L 231, 435 

Peavey, Charles A 287,473 

Peavey, Joseph 329, 429 

Peavey, Thornton E. . . 329, 429, 442 

Pelkie, Peter 301, 479 

Pendleton, William 238, 435 

Percival, Addison C 245, 435 



INDEX. 



Perkins, Albro M 381 

Perkins, Charles E 2P7 

Perkins, Francis M 325, 429 

Perkins, Hosea B 287, 473 

Perkins, Lorenzo D 321,464 

Perry, Edmund 344) 443 

Perry, Melvln J 238, 424 

Perry, Oliver II 344 

Perry, Philander G 405 

Pettengill, Daniel W. . 292, 395, 396, 471 

Philbrick, Charles H 405> 474 

Philbrick, Samuel H. . , . . . 329 
Philbrick, William W., Jr. . . 281,427 

Philbrook, Alphonzo W 284 

Philbrook, Eugene S 287 

fhilbrook, Francis L. . . 231,424,453 
Philbrook, Frederic . . . 231,424,453 
Philbrook, Nathaniel D. . . . 3r5, 442 

'Phillips, Timothy 361 

'Phinney, Albert C 344, 45^ 

fPhinney, Frederic 369 

Thinney^ Joseph ' . . 369 

Phipps, Asa H 369 

Phipps, Charles W 249 

(Pierce, Andrew J 232 

Pierce, David T 282 

Pierce, Norris N 284, 396 

Pierce, Thornton M 251, 435 

Pike, Gilman 329,442,465 

Pineo, Jonathan 335, 466 

Pineo, Josjah D 338, 430 

Pinkham, George W 338, 430 

Pinkham, John T 33S, 430 

Pinkham, Nathaniel W. . 338, 430, 454 

Piper, Simeon B 375 

Piper, Warren L 375, 43^ 

Pitcher, Horatio, Lt , 88, 106, 215, 222, 267 

Pitcher, Joseph A 381, 431 

Playze, Franklin S 256, 457 

•Plumadore, Thomas 258 

Plummer Fernando C 338, 452 

Pollard, David O. ... 301, 440, 476 
Pomroy, Henry .... 284, 375, 446 

Pomroy, Henry W 315,442 

Pomroy, Samuel 310 

Pomroy, William W. . . 249, 436, 457 
Pond, Charles H 245 



Pooler, Henry 354, 431, 445 

Pooler, Joseph 238, 455 

Poor, John A 405, 471 

Porter, Elias K 251, 425, 458 

Porter, George W 282 

Porter, Hugh F., Lt. . . 363, 365, 468 

Porter, Oliver 359, 431 

Porter, William H 272, 426 

Pote, George P., Lt. . 223, 290, 295, 302 

Potter, George E 397 

Potter, George P. . . . 375,445,492 

Potter, John 287, 477 

Potter, John E 388,471 

Potter, Josiah T 369, 446 

Potter, Winfield S 301 

Pottle, David , 272, 459 

Pottle, Moses 272 

Powers, Frank S 284, 460 

Powers, Samuel H 397 

Powers, Thomas ....... 407 

Pratt, Edwin N 344, 430 

Pratt, Nathaniel N 388,471 

Pratt, William H 232, 424 

Pratt, William W 397, 449 

Pray, Samuel E 315, 463, 476 

Prescott, Charles E 388.470 

Prescott, John N 282. 427 

Prescott, Joseph B 282 

Presley. John W 364, 446 

Proctor, Lorenzo 359 

Prue, Charles ....... 325, 442 

Pulk, William H 238, 424 

Quigley, John S 329, 429 

Quimby, John H. , . . • . . 388, 44S 

Quinn, JohnE 301 

Rackliff, Joseph V 388, 432 

Ramsdell, Henry A 396, 449 

Ramsdell, Sewall D 396, 47 f 

Rand, William J 251 

Randall, Isaiah 354, 444 

Randlett, Albert S 381 

Randlett, William S. . . 295, 440, 473 
Raymond, Daniel P. . . 310, 428, 463 

Raymond, Hiram D 238, 456 

Raynes, Richard P. .... . 295, 462 

Read. Charles F 310, 463 

Reed, Charles H 287,461 



MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT 



Reed, Ezra R 252, 473 

Reed, Harvey H 282, 468 

Reed, Horace S 238 

Reeves, Andrew J 296, 440 

Reeves, James J 310, 463 

Reeves, Willam R 296, 427 

Remick, John G 261, 473 

Remick, William B 208 

Rendell, Benjamin ,P 315 

Reynolds, Charles E 372 

Reynolds, Emery 38S, 470 

Reynolds, Frederick F 372 

Reynolds, Henry A., Asst. Serg. . 210, 

221,223 

Rice, Oilman 238 

Rich, James M 249 

Rich, Preston A 326 

Richardson, Benjamin ... . 228, 435 
Richardson, Bloomfield T. . . 268, 451 

Richardson, John 258 

Richardson, Mark T 265, 437 

Richardson, Seward P 287 

Richmond, William H. . . . 388, 448 
Richter, J. F. William . . 364,369,446 

Rideout, Jonathan G 232. 455 

Rideout, William F 389, 470 

Rider, Albert B * . . 249, 425 

Rider, Henry W 256, 435 

Ridley, Joseph S 344, 430 

Rigney, Horatio J 238 

Riley, John 331 

Ripley, James A 321,442 

Ripley, Miles 405 

Ritchie, Andrew S. . , . ' . 364. 369 

Ritchie, John C 238,455- 

Robbins, Charles D 405, 449 

Robbins, Charles W 370, 446 

Robbins, George H 252, 457 

Robbins, Ira B 405, 449 

Robbins, James B 252, 436 

Roberts, Cassias C, Lt 243 

257. 380. 447 

Roberts, James 331 

Roberts, James H 272, 426 

Roberts, John P 301,440 

Robinson, Charles E, Lt 244 

Robinson, Frank S 282, 459 



I Robinson, George B 249. 435 

I Robinson, George L 310' 

i Robinson, Herod 232, 455 

! Robinson, James F., Lt 260 

j 273, 2S2, 460 

Robinson, John .... 364, 370, 469 

Robinson, John L 3 '5. 465 

Robinson, Joseph E 232 

Robinson, William H 232 

Rodick, Jienjamin 268, 426 

Rodick, John A 265, 459 

Rogers, James 375, 46S 

Rogers, James H 344, 430 

Rogers, John C. . - . . . . 389, 448 

Rogers, Seldin 3(0, 442, 462 

Rolfe, Luther F 405, 472 

Rollins, Benjamin F., Capt. . . . 289 

29', 439 

Rollins, Benjamin W 296, 47& 

Rollins, George, Lt 277, 438 

Rollins, John L 354. 445 

Rooks, Rufus, H 405, 454 

Rose, Thomas 2S2, 427 

Ross, Andrew J 272, 426 

Rounds, George C 232 

Rowe, Andrew J 232,455, 

Rowe, Eri 232, 424, 453 

Rowe, Henry 359, 445 

Rowel), Alpheus ...... 296, 487 

Rowell, Philander W 23S, 475 

Royal, Arthur 265 

Royal, George W. P 252 

Royal, John 272. 438 

Royal, Luther M 265, 438 

Ruggles, Gardner IL, Lt. ... 123, 
305,306, 441,462 

Runnels, Bealy 232, 434 

Runnels, Charles F 405. 47- 

Russell, Leander 354, 445 

Ryan, James 272 

Ryan, James Z 272 

Ryan, John 36* 

Ryan, Michael 361, 48S 

Sabine, George W., Maj 91, 

97, 21S, 223, 455, 363, 364 

Saddler, Eben H '. ■ 268 

Saddler, John B 26S, 426 



[NDEX. 



Salsbury, Arthur L 265, 438 

Salsbury, Elliot J 260, 436 

Salsbury, Warren H 26S" 

Sampson, William L 296, 440 

Sanborn, Ambrose F 407 

Sanborn, Isaac 359 

Sanderson, Charles W. . . . 389, 470 

Sargent, Abraham, Jr 265, 438 

Sargent, Augustus J 272 

Sargent, Calvin J 272, 487 

Sargent, Frank J., Lt. 268, 391, 459, 478 

Saul, John 210,301,485 

Saunders, Aaron 329, 464 

Saunders, Clinton D 329, 442 

Saunders, Hudson, Capt. . 3-'o 332, 346 

Saunders, Jeremiah 326 

Saunders, Samuel B 325, 429 

Savage, Hiram F 238' 482 

Savage, Samuel T 265, 425 

Savage, Thomas 249, 457 

Sawin, Luther J 301, 427 

Sawtelle, Charles E 315, 463 

Sawyer, Andrew C 224, 307 

Sawyer, Arthur G , 354. 445 

Sawyer, Charles H 338, 465 

Sawyer, Charles H. Lt. . 292, 393, 407 

Sawyer, Enos 338, 430, 454 

Sawyer, Freeman C 389, 432 

Sawyer, Harvey 310 

Sawyer, Hudson, Capt 163, 

330, 360, 464, 491 

Sawyer, Joseph D 380 

Sawyer, Stephen S. . . . 3ro, 462, 476 

Sawyer, William P 268 

Scott, Daniel S 232 

Scott, George W 238 

Scott, Henry H ; . 239 

Scott, Ira 354, 467 

Scott, John B .■ 239, 455 

Scott, John J 265, 437 

Scott, Martin 232, 435 

Scott, William W 232, 487 

Scullin, James A 287 

Sears, James 364, 370, 468 

Sears, John T 287 

Sears, Richard 364, 370, 452 

Seavey, Reuben W 282, 460 



Sellers, Henry E., Lt. . . 275, 277, 460 

Sevrrance, Henry A 256, 458 

Severance, Thatcher .... 344, 430 

Shaw, Charles 287, 427 

Shaw, Charles E 249 

Shaw, Charles L 330, 428 

Shaw, Frank 344 

Shaw, Frederic E., Capt. . 274, 277, 425 

Shaw, Gilman J 354, 445 

Shaw, Horace H., Capt 100, 

109, no, 2or, 212, 219, 306, 441, 510, 511 

Shaw, Isaac 370, 446 

Shaw, John W 315,443 

Shaw, Omar 3S9, 470 

Shaw, William C 228 

Shaw, William H.'- 330 

Shea, Alfred B 296. 439 

Shepherd, Russell B., Col. . . . 87* 

i2r, 122, 149, 150, 162, 178, 200, 212, 

216, 217, 222, 455. 

Sherburn, Dennis 3'5>463 

Sherburn, Hosea H 405, 472 

Shirland, Winthrop 359, 468 

Shorl, Richard H 407 

bidelinker, Orrin A. . . . 296, 439, 490 

Simpson, Isaiah 389 

Sinclair, Rufus S 338, 467, 48S 

Sinclair, William A 338 

Skien, James 234 

Skillin, Hugh S 315 

Sleeper, Henry H 330, 465 

Small, Charles J 310 

Small, John D 3(5 

Small, Warren T. ... 338, 429, 476 

Smart, William H 301 

Smiley, Charles ET 405, 449 

Smiley, Henry 296, 438 

Smith, Albert 258 

Smith, Alphonzo 310, 440 

Smith, Asa 265, 459 

Smith, Avandah . 310 

Smith, Benjamin 339 

Smith, Charles B. 3 [0,442 

Smith, Charles N 282, 461 

Smith, Charles 310,491 

Smith, Charles W 282, 438 

Smith, Daniel ....... 389, 432 



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MEMBERS OF THE RfcCIMENT. 



Smith, David 282 

Smith, Edwin F 272, 438 

Smith, George, Co. E . . . , 301, 440 

Smith, George, Co. (1 331 

Smith, George A 272, 437 

Smith, George H 359, 445 

Smith, Gilman P 335 

Smith, Harrison G., Maj 219, 

224. 334,466 

Smith, Heman P 243, 245, 457 

Smith, Henry G 268, 438 

Smith, Hiram 364, 370, 446 

Smith, Horace A 2S7, 46r 

Smith, Horace S 287 

Smith, James 339 

Smith, James A 321, 429, 476 

Smith, James 1 287 

Smith, James M 26[. 459 

Smith, John, Co. G 330 

Smith, John, Co. I 36[ 

Smith, John A., Co. C . . . . 266, 459 

Smith, John A., Co. L 391 

Smith, John S 249, 457 

Smith, John W 3ro, 442, 463 

Smith. Josiah W 232, 424 

Smith, Lemuel 266 

Smith, Lemuel A 266, 458 

Smith Libby H 375 

Smith, Llewellyn H 354, 468 

Smith, Nelson S 370 

Smith, Robert . . . 364, 365, 445, 474 

Smith, Stephen M 375, 447 

Smith, Stillman 296, 458 

Smith, William .... 266, 43S, 459 

Smith, William A 375, 431 

Smith, William J 239, 453 

Smith, William W 272 

Smith, Zemro A., Lt. Col. . . . 82, 
89, 149, 150, 200, 20 f, 2r8, 223, 260, 437 

Snow, Daniel W 232, 434 

Snow, Francis H 3 to, 463 

Snow, Samuel 310, 441 

Soule, Benjamin B 354, 444 

Soule, Samuel P 355, 485 

Southard, Andrew F 345 

Southard, Charles W 354, 468 

Southard, Isaac 345 



Sparrow, Stephen M 389 

Spaulding, Nathaniel .... -30, 442 

Spearen, Albert 233, 473 

Spearen, Chauncey, Jr y\ 

Speed, Charles 249,451 

Speed, George W 405, 449 

Speed, John 249, 436 

Speed, William \\ 389 

Spencer, Albro W 239 

Spencer, Timothy 405, 449 

Spooner, Horatio, N. P., Lt. . . 306, 

377, 379. 469 

Sprague, Alfred M 375, 431 

Sprague, Benjamin 272 

Sprague, George W 239, 456 

Sprague, John T 375.447.488 

Sprague, Salathiel 405 

Sprait, Thomas G., Lt. . . . 348, 349 

Springer, Edmund 266. 426 

Springer, George F 354. 444 

Sproule, Adelbert F. . . 349, 444, 467 

Squire, William 11 330 

Squire, William P 266, 438 

Stacy, George F 381 

Stade, Charles 256. 458 

Stanhope, Frederick 405, 454 

Stanhope, George A 282 

Stanhope, Gilbert - 287 

Stanley, Nathan S 389, 470 

Stanley, William H. . . . 273,438,482 

Stanley, Willis C 266 

Stanton, Edwin 406,471 

Stanwood, George F 233, 434 

Stanwood, Thomas H 233, 481 

Staples, Charles M. . . 406, 449. 472, 488 

Staples, Holman 296, 461 

Staples, Isaac C 266, 437 

Staples, Joseph F 389 

Staples, Josiah 311,462 

Staples, Wentworth 301, 440 

Starkie, Alexander 266 

Staten, William H. U 269, 438 

Stearns, Henry W. . . 30[, 440, 453, 462 

Stearns, Willard A 239 

Stevens, George F 3 '5- 463 

Stevens, Isaac E 3S9. 470 

Stevens, Samuel 3^5 



INDEX. 



Stevens, Theodore C 287, 453 

Stevenson, Daniel R 311, 441 

Stevenson, Lowell M 3[i, 442 

Stevenson, Melvin S 315,442 

Stevenson, "William M. ... 306, 440 
Steward, Ephraim W. . . 375, 447, 469 

Steward, John M 239, 486 

Steward, Mark P 296, 427 

Stewart, Charles H 256,436 

Stewart, Charles W 239, 456 

Stewart, Moses H 252, 457 

Stewart, William H 239, 456 

Stickney, Benjamin 296, 427 

Stinchfield. John 239 

Stinson, George B 355. 454 

Stinson, James H. . . . 389,448,471 

Stinson, John F 389 

Stone, John 331 

Storer, Oscar 389, 470 

Stover, George L 325, 463 

St. Pierre, Frank 354, 444 

Stratton, James M. . . . 266,426,473 

Stratton, Howard M 339, 466 

Stratton, Wellington . . 273, 438, 459 

Strout, Addison J 330, 464 

Strout, Benjamin W 339 

Strout, Royal H 301, 439 

Strout, Stephen 249 

Stuart, Edwin K 311,441 

Stubbs, Henry F. . . . . . .315,441 

Studley, Benjamin C 389, 448 

Sturtevant, Lewis A 301, 461 

Suckforth, Willard E 330, 443 

Sullivan, Daniel 266, 459 

Sullivan, Francis A 239, 482 

Sullivan, Thomas 234, 456 

Sutherland, James R 273, 438 

Swan, Robert 211 

Sweet, Israel 345, 485 

Sweetland, Virgil D 406, 449 

Swett, Fred 325 

Swett, Hiram F., Lt. . . 364, 365, 468 

Sylvester, Charles E 284 

Sylvia, Charles H 370 

Symonds, Smith A 406, 449 

Tabbitts, George S 341, 430 

Tabbott, Zemmery D 339 



Talbot, Frederick O., Lt. . 363, 370, 483 

Talbot, Stephen C, Lt 216.364 

Talbot, Thomas H,. Lt. Col. . . 88, 
106, 214, 222 

Talbot, William H 390, 448 

Tasker, Samuel F 296, 461 

Taylor, George W 315 

Taylor, John H 233, 555 

Taylor.^Rodney J 315, 441 

Temple, William J 311 

Thomas, Converse . . . 345, 467, 48c 

Thomas, Henry L 249, 435 

Thomas, Samuel A 345, 467 

Thompson, Alonzo 269 

Thompson, Charles H 354 

Thompson, Domingo C. . . .301, 440 

Thompson, George G 302, 461 

Thompson, Louis M. . . 210,252,425 

Thornton, Samuel 239 

Thornton, Samuel K 233 

Thurber, John H . 407 

Thurlow, Charles 296, 427 

Thurston, Horatio A 330 

Thurston, Stephen 330, 465 

Tlbbetts, Arthur B 335 

Tibbetts, Charles H 233 

Tibbeits, George A 390, 470 

Tibbetts, George E. . . . 360. 445, 480 

Tibbetts, Horace 390,471 

Tibbetts, Horatio 360, 468 

Tibbetts, Jesse 330, 465 

Tibbetts, John G 406, 454 

Tibbetts, John H 249, 425 

Tibbetts, Joseph B 249 

Tibbetts, Sumner 282, 459 

Tibbett.s, William W 256, 458 

Tibbetts, William W. P 233 

Tibdo, Peter 249, 436 

Tinker, James E 266, 426 

Tirrell, Charles D 325, 451 

Tolle, John 235 

Tolman, Minot 330, 465 

Tolman, Moses B 830, 465 

Tomar, John 210, 25S 

Toohey, Thomas - 370, 469 

Tourtillott, George 235 

Towle, James H 390, 448 



MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT 



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Towle, John R 233, 435 

Towle, Josiah 273 

Townes, Adoniram J 296 

Tozier, Alphonzo A., Lt. . 331, 355, 468 

Tracy, Arunah 311,462 

Tracy, Cleaves C 302, 462 

Tracy, Jonathan 233 

Tracy, Liberty B 239 

Trac}', Oscar 406, 449 

Trafton, Charles B 330, 429 

Trask. John P 252 

Trask, Samuel W 370 

Treaclwell, Nathaniel, Jr. . . . 375, 445 

Treat, Albert 249 

Trevitt, Roscoe .... 330, 429, 451 

Treworgy, George H 266, 426 

Trickey, John A 355, 444 I 

Trickey, Joseph C 250 

Tripp, Albion K 375.431 

Tripp, Alonzo S 233 

Tripp, Ephraim C 406 

Tripp, Martin V 31 r, 463, 4S5 

Trundy, Benson L 390, 448 

Trundy, Russell 256, 492 

Tucker, Albert 360, 467 

Tucker, Andrew 364, 370 

Tucker, Benjamin N 339, 465 

Tucker, Daniel \Y 360, 467 

Tucker, Frederic H. . . . 239, 435. 487 

Tucker, George W 233, 473 

Tucker, Seward W 345, 430 

Tucker, Sherman L 345, 443 

Tucker, Timothy H 252 

Tucker, Wheelock 339 

Tucker, Wilmot B 339 j 

Tuesley, Charles H 284 ; 

Tuesley, George W 345, 466 

Tuesley, Joshua W 224,311 

Tufts, Rodolphus A 2S2, 477 

Turner, Augustus M 228, 435 

Turner, Henry G 390 

Turner, James 235 

Turner, James, Jr 31 [,442 I 

Turner, Reuben II 406 I 

Turney, Nelson 273, 426 

Tuttle, Edward C 311,441 

Tuttle, John M " . 284 



Twombly, Alonzo D 390 

Twombly, Amos W 307 

Twombly, Charles T 250, 436 

Tyler, Charles II 2:50,424 

Tyler, Manley S 391,486 

Tyler, Marion F 250, 457 

Uhr, Joseph 335, 464 

Varnum, lienjamin 266, 490 

Veancou, Alexander .... 360, 467 

Veancou, Eli 406 

Vickery, Leander 256, 478 

Vickery, Wilmot T., Lt. . 250, 379, 447 

Volmer, Gotfried 316 

Voyer, Frank 312, 441 

Waite, John E 233 

Waite, Sewall B 287 

Wakefield, James P 335 

Wakefield, Joseph F 339, 467 

W^akefield, William II 252 

Waldron, Stephen G., Lt. 305, 311, 462 

Walker, Irad, Jr 390, 447 

W^alker, Thomas B 24c, 456 

Wallace, James W 339, 430 

Wallace, Warren C 339. 430 

Wallace, Wilbury L 339, 439 

\Vallace, William 282, 461 

Walton, Thomas 370 

Ward, John T. ... 370, 431, 446,469 

Ward, Joseph 252, 4157 

Ward, Loren 339 

Wardwell, Emery S., Lt 320 

Ware, Franklin 406, 475 

Warren, James . . . 2:8, 435, 456, 484 

W^arren, Jerry 361 

Warren, Lorenzo .... 360, 445, 480 
Warren, William C. . . . '. . 240, 456 

Warren, William W 345, 467 

W^asgatt, Ambrose H 269,438 

Wasgatt, Elijah H 266, 437 

Washburn, Leonard H. ... 296, 440 

Washburn, William R 360 

Waterman, Albert A 316 

Waters, George C 355- -145 

Waters, Matthew 2S2, 459 

Watson, Gustavus A 245, 435 

Watson, Isaac 370, 447 

Watson, Nathan B 345. 467 



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Weaver, Benjamin 345, 466 

Webb, James P 287 

Webber, Elias, Jr 330, 443 

Webber, Horace C 390, 448 

Webster, Frank W 277 

Webster, Robert A 282,484 

Webster, William A 245, 457 

Wedgewood, True W 355, 444 

Weed, Artemas D 390 

Weeman, Osborn . . 302, 440, 479, 482 

Welch, John 339 

Welch, William H. . . . 245, 478, 487 

Weld, Charles E 296, 440 

Wentworth, Frank M 390 

Wentworth, Grant 316, 428 

Wentworth, James E. . . 316,442,487 

Wentworth, Samuel J 287 

Wentworth. Thomas .... 316, 463 

West, Edward B 302, 486 

West, James H 233 

Weymouth, Charles M. . . . 349. 444 
Wheeler, Charles P. . . . 316,427,442 

Wheeler, George A 320 

Wheeler, Henry C 316,428 

Whitcomb, Hezekiah .... 311,442 

Whitcomb, Simeon C 311,462 

White, Albert, Lt 349 

White, Edwin E 406, 472 

White, Ivory S 233 

White, Peter F 339 

White, William 256, 457 

Whitmg, Brazilla F 375, 445 

Whitney, David J 302,440 

Whitney, John 370 

Whitney, John A 390 

Whitney, Lemuel B 250, 435 

Whitney, William H 256 

Whittaker, Elisha 360, 467 

Whitten, Horatio 355 

Whittier, Austin W 345, 466 

Whittier, Benjamin F 250 

Whittier, Charles H 250, 456 

Whittier, Frank W 288, 460 

Whittier, John A 256, 473 

Whittier, Josiah M. . . . 406, 449,480 

Wiggin, David B 316, 441 

Wilbur, David 371,480 



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Wilcox, Stephen, Jr. . . . . 

Wilder, George E 371, 4,^7 

Wilder, John G 372, 469 

Wilder, William H 371,' 452 

Wiley, Benjamin F., Jr 2S8 

Wiley, Charles 390,471 

Wiley, Oliver 311,442 

^'^ ilkinson, Daniel L 339, 430 

Willard, John 296, 427 

j Willey, George M 345, 467 

j Willey, Richard W 339, 486 

Willey, Robert L 339, 492 

Williams, Aaron E. . 210, 331, 429, 465 
Williams, James ...... 273, 459 

Williamson, Thonias .... 345, 443 

Wilson, Charles E 340 

Wilson, George F 252 

Wilson, Randall N 360 

Winchester, Daniel VV. . . . 355, 445 

Wing, Altheus 312, 463 

Wing, Asa T 99. 307, 462 

Wing, Moses P 233, 455 

Witham, Adelbert 233, 434 

Witham, George W 282 

Witham, Nathaniel R 223 

Withee, Albert 360 

Withee, Amos A 302, 461 

Woodbury, Axel 407, 491 

Woodbury, George S 302, 461 

Woodcock, Stillman S., Lt. . . 276,278 
Woodman, Thomas H. . . . 375, 483 

Wooster, Robert 240 

Worcester, Edward L., Lt., 252, 378, 391 

Worcester, Frank D 252 

W^orcester, Thomas B 360, 445 

Wormwood, Stephanus . . . 266, 426 

Worster, Aaron L 340, 430 

Worster, Joseph W 340,466 

Wolton, Joshua 273 

Yates, Edward M 341 

York, Franklin 375^445 

York, George A 283, 316, 442 

Young, Abijah T 312, 441 

Young, Augustus 355, 485 

\'oung, Jeptha, Jr 296 

Young, John W 390-432 

Young, Leander R 360, 445 



ERRATA. 

Page 85, seventeenth line, for Seventh Wisconsin, read Second. 

Page 127, bottom of page, for George C. Meade, read George G. Meade. 

Page 349, second line from bottom, for Adelbert Sproiile, read 
Adelbert F. Sproule. 

Page 424, fourth line, for William W. Pratt, read WilHam H. Pratt. 

5age 425, sixteenth line, for Albert C. Rider, read Albert B. Rider. 

Page 432, nineteenth line, for Charles H. Johnson, read Charles H. 
Johnston. 

Page 436, second line, for Willard E. Emery, read Willard H. Emery. 

Page 447, second line, for John P. Sprague, read John T. Sprague. 

Page 456, twenty-sixth line, for Willam L. Warren, read William 
C. Warren. 

Page 458, third line from bottom, for Joseph W. Mason, read Joseph 
W. Nason. 

Page 459, seventh line, for P>ank J. Sergeant, read P>ank J. Sargent. 

Page 467, tenth line from bottom, for June 27, read July 27. 

Page 468, fourteenth line, for Calvin F. Hutchins, read Calvin 
L. Hutchins. 

Page 471, sixteenth line, for Nathan N. Pratt, read Nathaniel N. Pratt. 

Page 473, tenth line, for Richard McGrath, read Richard P. McGrath. 

Page 474, eighth line from bottom, for Edward P. Clary, read Edward 
R. Clarry. 

Page 476, last line, for Edward Kilby, read Edward B. Kilby. 

Page 485, eleventh line, for Newell Davis, read Newell W. Davis. 

Page 487, fifth line from bottom, for Herbert E. Arey, read Herbert 
C. Arey. 

Page 488, thirteenth line, for John P. Sprague, read John T. Sprague. 



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